(v. t.) To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
(v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) They include the brothers David and Martin Ennals: the former became social services secretary in Callaghan’s 1976 Labour government and was later ennobled, the latter became general secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and secretary general of Amnesty International.
(3) The unlikely ennoblement of this university lecturer, 49, passed largely unnoticed in the press.
(4) Three long-serving party grandees, Sir Alan Beith, Sir Menzies Campbell and Sir Malcolm Bruce, will also be also ennobled.
(5) Or, if that is too complicated, they can simply depict the ways in which human beings endure conflict, or are ennobled by it.
(6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
(7) Jones, who went on to be ennobled and serve as a UK trade minister, continued to defend the record of Cryne as late as July 2006, when a string of profits warnings prompted concerns about iSoft's aggressive accounting to resurface.
(8) Now ennobled and a schools minister, he had earlier that day met two of the four Barrow borough councillors recently elected on the 'Our Schools Are Not For Sale' ticket.
(9) Yesterday, the MPs who will discuss the matter at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, were saying that the only thing which could rescue Mr Thorpe would be a spectacular performance at the forthcoming by-elections at Carshalton, where the sitting Tory, Robert Carr, has been ennobled, or the Wirral, where the Speaker, Selwyn Lloyd, is retiring.
(10) Stewart Wood, an academic who is Miliband's righthand man and who was ennobled on Friday, the day of the interview, makes the tea in cups that Miliband points out aren't dirty, but instead have been painted by his two-year old.
(11) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(12) For Rabbi Julia Neuberger, today's ennoblement to Liberal Democrat peer is the latest in a list of titles, including a DBE in the New Year's honours, 11 honourary doctorates and an honourary fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.
(13) A previous attempt to ennoble the businessman failed when he was questioned as part of the cash-for-peerages scandal.
(14) She said: “The Department of Justice is the only department named for an ideal, and this is appropriate because our work … is both ennobling and profoundly challenging.” On Saturday, colleagues and peers of Lynch told the Guardian of her “low-key, very measured” approach and said she was “very smart, she knows how to surround herself with smart people”.
(15) He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement in 2005.
(16) Digby Jones, the former CBI chief, was ennobled and given the post of trade minister.
(17) In this particular instance, however, Marfan's syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.
(18) The most eye-catching ennoblement, however, was that of the Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes , creator of ITV1's hit period drama Downton Abbey.
(19) Since being ennobled, Ashcroft has attended the Lords for an average of 36 days each year, has asked few questions and has missed the overwhelming majority of votes.
(20) Alistair Cooke, a veteran of the Conservative research department, and Nick True, a longstanding adviser to Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the Lords, are also ennobled.
Nobility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
(n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.
(n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rather small amount of semen the man ejaculates suggests he is a frequent masturbator.” To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald’s enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
(2) He is at least as tribal, jingoistic, and provincial as those he condemns for those human failings, as he constantly hails the nobility of his side while demeaning those Others.
(3) It displayed, however, nobility to inhibit alpha-chymotrypsin, pepsin, papain and subtilisin BPN'.
(4) Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
(5) Weah embraces the familiar imagery of African nobility - the lion - and walks with a clear sense of self-worth through the smoking, potholed streets of Monrovia.
(6) Alloys are classified on the basis of 1) normal-fusing (non-porcelain bonding); and 2) high-fusing (porcelain bonding) and on nobility within these two groups.
(7) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
(8) That's why, this year, it seems like a mistake to ignore the fact that the Olympics are not just a soaring tribute to the nobility of the human spirit; they are a multibillion-dollar business that thrives on a complex international system of trade for everything from merchandising to naming rights to brand partnerships.
(9) It may be clever politics to try to preserve what is left of your faux progressive credentials by picking a fight about gay marriage , but the nobility of that cause shouldn't distract from what a pup Britain has been sold.
(10) Its significance, however, lies not in the number of casualties but in the nobility of its aspirations and the power of its legacy.
(11) Dear Heather I’d love to count you as a supporter of the nobility of the European project but your opening salvo is in part straight Ukip – a bit late to backtrack now!
(12) I have never felt comfortable with over-lofty claims for the nobility or honour of our trade.
(13) There was, apparently, a storyline about movement and creation and nobility in the Amazon but Lord knows why anyone ever bothers with storylines in such things, considering (a) they are utterly incomprehensible and (b) the only reasons people really watch is to coo at the cute children (of which there were plenty) and watch people on stilts fall over (of which there were none.)
(14) The results are combined with prior findings on other commercial alloys to demonstrate the interaction of nobility and microstructure.
(15) Like its famous sister, Choquequirao seems to have been a kind of royal estate for Inca nobility, built a generation or two before the Spanish arrived.
(16) The results indicate the combinations of nobility, microstructure, and environment most likely to avoid corrosion difficulties.
(17) Every class of society was represented, from the Scottish nobility to the typesetters who worked alongside Snare in Reading and remembered his life-or-death passion for the portrait.
(18) DNA molecules with stable cruciform structures were generated by heteroduplexing this DNA fragment with mutants altered within the palindromic sequence (C. Nobile and R. G. Martin, Int.
(19) Our actions, now, will most certainly define the nobility of our lives and our legacy.
(20) Drama in Bahama: Muhammad Ali v Trevor Berbick - in pictures Read more And Ali was resigned to his fate, which gave him an endearing nobility.