"ennoblise" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ennoblises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "ennoblize"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1597, Gerard Legh, The Accedence of Armorie, page 13",
          "text": "The noblenes of lignage, is an excellency of dignity going out of the bodie, but not comming out alwaie of himselfe that is so ennoblised, for perhaps hee neuer deserued that which came to him from his auncestours, who by their merites haue gotten the same.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1603, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man, Or His Summum Bonum, page 263",
          "text": "He that desireth true nobility, let him endeuour to ennoblise himselfe by his owne vertues,& nt by his parentage: that he may answer as Anacharsis the Philosopher did to one, that glorying because he was borne in the famous cittie of Anthens, objected to Anacharsis in disgrace, that hee was a Scithian, which was a barbarous countrey in respect of Greece.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, J.N. Mudra, S.C. Mundra, A History of English Literature, Volume 2",
          "text": "He was all out for elevating and ennoblising them, and that is why his presentation of rustic characters is marked with a genuine note of sympathy and admiration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of ennoblize"
      ],
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          "ennoblize#English"
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  ],
  "word": "ennoblise"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ennoblises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ennoblised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1597, Gerard Legh, The Accedence of Armorie, page 13",
          "text": "The noblenes of lignage, is an excellency of dignity going out of the bodie, but not comming out alwaie of himselfe that is so ennoblised, for perhaps hee neuer deserued that which came to him from his auncestours, who by their merites haue gotten the same.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1603, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man, Or His Summum Bonum, page 263",
          "text": "He that desireth true nobility, let him endeuour to ennoblise himselfe by his owne vertues,& nt by his parentage: that he may answer as Anacharsis the Philosopher did to one, that glorying because he was borne in the famous cittie of Anthens, objected to Anacharsis in disgrace, that hee was a Scithian, which was a barbarous countrey in respect of Greece.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, J.N. Mudra, S.C. Mundra, A History of English Literature, Volume 2",
          "text": "He was all out for elevating and ennoblising them, and that is why his presentation of rustic characters is marked with a genuine note of sympathy and admiration.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of ennoblize"
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  "word": "ennoblise"
}