ennoble

To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.

There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise.

To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.

To inarch.