ennobling

adj

1. Acting or tending to ennoble.

   “Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.”

   “He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.”

   “It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of ennoble

noun

1. An act of making noble.

   “They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.”