as in to elevate
to assign a high status or value to
the heroic actions of firefighters during the terrorist attack did much to ennoble the profession of fire fighting in the public mind
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There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
After becoming an alderman and then a provost of merchants between 1612 and 1613, he was ennobled, and the Château de Fléchères was created to establish Sève’s nobility.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
Yet allowing the specifics of his ascent to be clouded by disdain is not much better than allowing his memory to be ennobled by mystery.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
After becoming an alderman and then a provost of merchants between 1612 and 1613, he was ennobled, and the Château de Fléchères was created to establish Sève’s nobility.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
Yet allowing the specifics of his ascent to be clouded by disdain is not much better than allowing his memory to be ennobled by mystery.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
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