Thesaurus / ennoble
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Buddhism failed to ennoble the daily occupations of life, and produced drones and idlers and religious vagabonds.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
You will have cares,—and even those will ennoble the world to you, and you to the world.
AN OLD MAN'S LOVEANTHONY TROLLOPE
This hero of her romance, this artist whom she was to ennoble by her love, was not even an honest man.
MARION ARLEIGH'S PENANCECHARLOTTE M. BRAEME
I want to recover faith in my mission, in my power to ennoble human souls.
He believes that the Novel should strengthen life, not undermine it; ennoble, not defile it; for it is good tidings, not evil.
ESSAYS ON MODERN NOVELISTSWILLIAM LYON PHELPS
What is the use of wondrous gifts of language, if they are employed to enervate, p. 19and not to ennoble, their hearers?
THE CLAIMS OF LABOURARTHUR HELPS
Whatever may be thought now, Mr. Gladstone is not the man whom posterity will ennoble with the title of either ‘great’ or ‘good.’
TRACKS OF A ROLLING STONEHENRY J. COKE
When such a woman marries, if her husband only wins her esteem and regard, he wins enough to ennoble his whole life.
THE MOONSTONEWILKIE COLLINS
It may be rather said to ennoble him by devoting him to the gods.
THE HAND OF PROVIDENCEJ. H. WARD
The motives that sway and ennoble the common conduct of men were powerless over the ruling classes.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME III (OF 8)JOHN RICHARD GREEN
WORDS RELATED TO ENNOBLE
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- appreciate
- be faithful
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- hallow
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- laud
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- live up to
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- praise
- prize
- revere
- roll out red carpet
- sanctify
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- uprear
- value
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- aggrandize
- appreciate
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- be true
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- commemorate
- commend
- compliment
- decorate
- dignify
- distinguish
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- erect
- esteem
- exalt
- give glad hand
- give key to city
- glorify
- hallow
- keep
- laud
- lionize
- live up to
- look up to
- magnify
- observe
- praise
- prize
- revere
- roll out red carpet
- sanctify
- sublime
- uprear
- value
- venerate
- worship
- acclaim
- admire
- adore
- aggrandize
- appreciate
- be faithful
- be true
- celebrate
- commemorate
- commend
- compliment
- decorate
- dignify
- distinguish
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- erect
- esteem
- eulogize
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- extol
- give glad hand
- give key to city
- glorify
- hail
- hallow
- keep
- laud
- lionize
- live up to
- look up to
- magnify
- observe
- praise
- prize
- revere
- roll out red carpet
- sanctify
- sublime
- uprear
- value
- venerate
- worship
- acclaim
- admire
- adulate
- advocate
- aggrandize
- applaud
- appreciate
- approve
- bless
- boost
- bow down
- build up
- cajole
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- cry up
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- give thanks
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- honor
- laud
- make much of
- panegyrize
- pay homage
- pay tribute
- proclaim
- puff
- rave over
- recommend
- resound
- reverence
- root
- sanction
- sing the praises
- smile on
- stroke
- tout
- worship
- acclaim
- admire
- adulate
- advocate
- aggrandize
- applaud
- appreciate
- approve
- bless
- boost
- bow down
- build up
- cajole
- celebrate
- cheer
- cite
- clap
- commend
- compliment
- cry up
- dignify
- distinguish
- elevate
- endorse
- ennoble
- eulogize
- exalt
- extol
- flatter
- give thanks
- glorify
- hail
- honor
- laud
- make much of
- panegyrize
- pay homage
- pay tribute
- proclaim
- puff
- rave over
- recommend
- resound
- reverence
- root
- sanction
- sing the praises
- smile on
- stroke
- tout
- worship
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