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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
ennobling en · ADJ
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Acting or tending to ennoble.
Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
1755, P. Shaw, Man, a paper for ennobling the species:He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.
2010, C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, page 140:It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.
2012, Jerome Klapka, Carolyn Oulton, Weeds, page 53:
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Deriveds
unennobling · ennoblingly
ennobling en · NOUN
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An act of making noble.
They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
1849, William Jay, Sermons:
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ennobling en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of ennoble