ennoble

the theatre is a moral instrument to ennoble the mind.

Hard work ennobles human spirit.

ennoble a prime minister for distinguished service.

I think, in part, we mythologize sacrifice, ennoble it with layer upon layer of redemptive they-did-not-suffer-and-die-in-vain meaning, because it enables us to bear the pain of loss.

Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship, and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.

We honor Presidents Washington and Lincoln because they embodied the values and character that ennoble public service.

His conduct this morning is noble, thought the marquis, so I will ennoble him myself.

To a head of bureau, the result seemed ennobling.

And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her.

It acts, it acts frightfully (I speak for myself), but not in an ennobling way.

Your love—the most tender and devoted love which ever ennobled the heart of man—cannot draw me back.

And a peroration addressed to women should have something, you will agree, particularly exalting and ennobling about it.

" I think the same as ever of you, Eustacia. Nothing of that sort can degrade you—you ennoble the occupation of your husband."

At the culmination of their power, the drama was their chief literary form — the drama, which is but speech ennobled, connected, clarified.

If a European noble  wished to expand his wealth, the only means he might consider was to appropriate the lands of  an equally ennobled neighbor.