"ennobling" meaning in All languages combined

See ennobling on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more ennobling [comparative], most ennobling [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} ennobling (comparative more ennobling, superlative most ennobling)
  1. Acting or tending to ennoble. Derived forms: ennoblingly, unennobling
    Sense id: en-ennobling-en-adj-oWhC~v~x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 20 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 73 16 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 10 8

Noun [English]

Forms: ennoblings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ennobling (plural ennoblings)
  1. An act of making noble.
    Sense id: en-ennobling-en-noun-yOl7g9xg

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} ennobling
  1. present participle and gerund of ennoble Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: ennoble
    Sense id: en-ennobling-en-verb-de88MrjU

Inflected forms

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        },
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          "ref": "1755, P. Shaw, Man, a paper for ennobling the species:",
          "text": "Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, page 140:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jerome Klapka, Carolyn Oulton, Weeds, page 53:",
          "text": "It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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