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ennobled en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having been made more noble; improved.
    • Also, the poetic art can be applied very usefully because the human being can also be very ennobled through fair prejudices. 2002, Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster, Herder: Philosophical Writings, page 296:
    • Their proportion remained largely unchanged over centuries despite the caseless arrival of thousands from the more ennobled parts of the country. 2016, Patrick O'Flanagan, Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900:
    • There are families of nations more readily susceptible of culture, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others, but not in themselves more noble. 1863, The Reason Why, page 283:

Forms

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most ennobled Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ennobled Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unennobled

Translations (3)

pl uszlachetniony (Having been made more noble.) · pl nobilitowany (Having been made more noble.) · fr ennobli (Having been made more noble.)

ennobled en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of ennoble
    form of ennoble