as in to elevate
to assign a high status or value to
the heroic actions of firefighters during the terrorist attack did much to ennoble the profession of fire fighting in the public mind
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Biden, by comparison, deserves to be ennobled, not ejected.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
Hayek’s paternal great-great-grandfather, a textile manufacturer in Moravia, was ennobled at the end of the eighteenth century; his son squandered his wealth in the course of the nineteenth.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
Francesca’s father Diego was inspired to ennoble Sicily’s then-low-end wine production at a time when the focus was on volume rather than quality.
—Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 June 2024
There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
Hayek’s paternal great-great-grandfather, a textile manufacturer in Moravia, was ennobled at the end of the eighteenth century; his son squandered his wealth in the course of the nineteenth.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
Francesca’s father Diego was inspired to ennoble Sicily’s then-low-end wine production at a time when the focus was on volume rather than quality.
—Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 June 2024
There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
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“Ennoble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ennoble. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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