ennoble

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ennoble

  • /ɪˈnəʊbəl/

Rhymes with -əʊbəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble.

verb ennobles · ennobling · ennobled

  1. To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.
  2. To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
  3. obsolete, transitive To inarch.

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