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词汇 ennobled
释义 ennobled
past simple and past participle ofennoble
ennoble
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪˈnəʊ.bəl/ us /ɪˈnoʊ.bəl/
to make someone a member of the nobility (= highest social rank)封…为贵族
literary
to make something or someone better so that people admire it, him, or her more: 使更崇高,使更高尚;使更尊贵
He has this theory that suffering can ennoble a person's character.他认为苦难可以使一个人的人格变得高尚。
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Becoming better

Examples of ennobled


ennobled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions.
Exacerbating this position, many of the drama's protagonists understand themselves as profoundly isolated by their exceptional situations (whether ennobled or degraded) and attendant emotions.
In the main cities, the protagonists were not only members of the high nobility, but ennobled wealthy citizens as well.
It characters are not ennobled by their learning or profession.
On the other hand, recently ennobled aristocrats were strongly present.
If the majority of new peers were magnates, the crown also ennobled a substantial group of smaller landowners.
Regla, once ennobled, faced the problem of what to do about his heirs.
Shuvalov belonged to one of the newly ennobled families who perceived the need to combine technical knowledge with a sensitivity to social concerns.
It was, in other words, the ennobled fraction of the oligarchy, a noblesse de robe, or new aristocracy that had grown up in the service of the crown.
Clearly, then, the expectation was that the newly ennobled who lacked magnate status at the time of their elevation would correct that deficiency within a generation or two.
Great families, both old boyar and newly ennobled, and their clients jockeyed for power.
I could go even further, and say it would be ennobled by such a decision.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is all according to whether one thinks that they are being ennobled or are struggling after a liability.
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He will not become greatly ennobled, or enriched, or otherwise rewarded by taking on this task.
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It is also true that the rich and the ennobled were exempted from many of the more ruthless provisions of the laws of marriage.
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