ennobling
Collocations
2ADJ.
chivalric
ENNOBLING + NOUN
deed, sciences
Definitions
adj
Acting or tending to ennoble.
Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
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.
noun
An act of making noble.
They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — tending to exalt
- exalting
adjective — investing with dignity or honor
- dignifying
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
WiktionaryHe 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.
WiktionaryIt is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.
WiktionaryThey may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
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