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How To Use ennobling In A Sentence

• Schally, may I express to you our gratitude for the honor you are doing all of us in ennobling this ceremony by your royal presence. Roger Guillemin - Banquet Speech
• Nor liefly thee would I advance to man-ennobling battle or so painful as -- Matthew Arnold
• Hungary stood out by ennobling bankers, traders, and railway magnates in significant numbers, and in 1890 the first Jew was promoted, without conversion to Christianity, to the baronage.
• On the contrary, Bacon's view of the hopelessness of the human condition precluded the aspiration to anything as uncomplicatedly elevated or ennobling as grandeur.
• This, then, is what is known as the ennobling and civilizing influence of war through the ages! Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture
• Without the ennobling power, he princes and dukes would stumble.
• If George Smiley -- the unflappable mole-hunter from "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and other le Carré books -- were around, he'd deliver a wry rebuff to the author about how ennobling it must be to live in a world of such certainty, where Western intelligence is reliably lupine and the Muslim world a verdant pasture of 95% innocent lambs. Suspicious Minds
• ennobling thoughts
• the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings
• You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano.