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ennobling

ennobling adjective: acting or tending to ennoble. Also the present participle and gerund of ennoble.

Adjective

ennobling (comparative more ennobling, superlative most ennobling)

  1. 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

Noun

ennobling (plural ennoblings)

  1. 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

Also used as

ennobling is also the present participle and gerund of ennoble.

Forms of ennobling

Adjective
comparativemore ennobling
superlativemost ennobling
Noun
pluralennoblings

Words formed from ennobling

Questions about ennobling

What does ennobling mean?
Ennobling means acting or tending to ennoble.
What part of speech is ennobling?
Ennobling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ennobling in the dictionary

  1. ennoblements
  2. ennobler
  3. ennoblers
  4. ennobles
  5. ennobleth
  6. ennobling
  7. ennoblingly
  8. ennoblings
  9. ennoblise
  10. ennoblised
  11. ennoblises

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