ennoble
verb /ɪˈnəʊbl/
/ɪˈnəʊbl/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ennoble | /ɪˈnəʊbl/ /ɪˈnəʊbl/ |
| he / she / it ennobles | /ɪˈnəʊblz/ /ɪˈnəʊblz/ |
| past simple ennobled | /ɪˈnəʊbld/ /ɪˈnəʊbld/ |
| past participle ennobled | /ɪˈnəʊbld/ /ɪˈnəʊbld/ |
| -ing form ennobling | /ɪˈnəʊblɪŋ/ /ɪˈnəʊblɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] ennoble somebody to make somebody a member of the nobility
- ennoble somebody/something to give somebody/something a better moral character
- In a strange way she seemed ennobled by her grief.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (formerly also as innoble): from French ennoblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + noble ‘noble’.