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ennobled

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verb

past tense of ennoble

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ennobled
Verb
The entire production is ennobled by his gift for listening actively to scene partners rather than waiting for his turn to speak. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ennobled
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Mars in Capricorn is operating at an exalted strength, moving forward with discipline, passion and purpose.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Lucretia’s lone, cold comfort is to deny Guiteau his exalted place in history, too, most tangibly by ensuring his book is never published.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • He is elevated, isolated, burdened, deified--positioned as an emblem.
    Philip Martin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • When Washington famously refused the power that could have come with such popular esteem, the move only elevated that esteem.
    Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • By splicing pop songs and familiar meme formats into cruel detainment footage, ICE strains to attract a younger demographic, hoping to convince people that the agency is a vibrant—and trollishly funny—organization engaged in the noble work of putting away bad guys.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In this case, focusing on a dress versus the altruistic work Turner is doing feels like an attempt to discredit that very noble work.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • He was eventually promoted to the 53-man roster and played in the final five games of the regular season.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • He was promoted to Commander in May 2025.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • But in his second term in the White House, Trump has also shared the spotlight and success with several of his Cabinet members, suggesting a somewhat magnanimous president primed to handpick his successor in 2028.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Rowling wasn't so magnanimous when addressing the ideological split between her and Watson.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Jacob Bethell, their great batting hope amid the debris of this tour, stood tall at the SCG to compile a sublime unbeaten 142 and extend the hosts’ inconvenience into this concluding fifth Test’s last day.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Nazism’s total domination politically and socially found an aesthetic counterpart in the visual reduction of bodies to things, ecstatically subdued before the hypnotic power of a leader, force, or sublime beauty.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Ennobled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ennobled. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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