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The act of raising someone to the nobility
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ennoblement
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n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being noble 2 (context countable English) The act of ennoble or something which ennobles
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Ennoblement \En*no"ble*ment\, n. The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. --Bacon. That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
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Ennoblement is the conferring of nobility —the induction of an individual into the noble class . Depending on time and region, various laws have governed who could be ennobled and how. Typically, nobility was conferred on individuals who had assisted the ...
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n. the state of being noble the act of raising someone to the nobility
Usage examples of ennoblement.
The loss of so much French nobility caused royal commissioners afterward to scour the provinces for bourgeois and rich peasants prepared to pay for ennoblement.
We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.
But I was quite happy to accept Bimbisara’s ennoblement because, almost without exception, Indian rulers are of the warrior class and constantly challenge their nominal superiors, the Brahmans.