ennobled

English

Adjective

ennobled (comparative more ennobled, superlative most ennobled)

  1. Having been made more noble; improved.
    • 1863, The Reason Why, page 283:
      There are families of nations more readily susceptible of culture, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others, but not in themselves more noble.
    • 2002, Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster, Herder: Philosophical Writings, page 296:
      Also, the poetic art can be applied very usefully because the human being can also be very ennobled through fair prejudices.
    • 2016, Patrick O'Flanagan, Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900:
      Their proportion remained largely unchanged over centuries despite the caseless arrival of thousands from the more ennobled parts of the country.

Derived terms

Verb

ennobled

  1. simple past and past participle of ennoble
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