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Definition of Ennobled
1. ennoble [v] - See also: ennoble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ennobled
Literary usage of Ennobled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... peerage has been created by writ the right descends by °f]^°n operation of
law to the heirs of the person so ennobled, with- the ..."
2. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"Henry Bromley, Stephen Fox, and John Howe, three members of the lower house, who
had signalized themselves in defence of the minister, were now ennobled, ..."
3. The Bookman (1903)
"Yet it was said that he "ennobled unworthy faces," which might mean that he
idealised their shapes. This is improbable. Possibly it means that the broad ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"The Emperor Mathias ennobled Cecchini, a famous harlequin, who was, however, a
man of letters.' Another celebrated representative of the part, ..."
5. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"But meanwhile the doctrine of ennobled blood had become so firmly engrafted in
the idea of peerage that not only did it outlast the abolition of the feudal ..."
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