Ennobled

There the word "autumn" is almost unknown; and though there is a dignity in the Latin word ennobled by our orators and poets, there is no one with a sense of style who will not applaud the choice of America. ❋ Charles Whibley (1894)

Ye have known the deeds that have raised this war between me and you, sons of Adnan; and if I do not appease myself among you, never may I be called ennobled in my parents! ❋ Unknown (1820)

There is nothing in its character, its manifold wrongs, its wretched results, and especially its influence on the class who claim to be 'ennobled' by ❋ Unknown (1860)

Kevin Costner's character, Lt. Dunbar, appears to be the only decent White in the movie, apart from his love interest, who is a White captive among the Indians, and thereby 'ennobled' by the Indians 'benevolent influence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Speaker Martin, who sought desperately to cover up the MPs 'expenses scandal, has just been' ennobled '; and Jacqui Smith, whose huge expenses quite dwarfed the meagre cost of her husband's porn movies, will soon add lustre to the red benches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kings have knighted me, emperors have ennobled me, and, as king myself, I have known stately moments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It ennobled the tongue, and long before there was a Hamlet or a Lear. ❋ David Teems (2012)

The very thought of her ennobled and purified him, made him better, and made him want to be better. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today Westwood is more forgiving of the woman who ennobled her. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And he was ennobled, as well, by the loftiness of thought and beauty he found in the books. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The elder Pitt was the minister who led Britain to success in the Seven Years 'War but who later, ennobled as Lord Chatham, presided over the unpopular refusal to let John Wilkes take the seat in parliament to which he had been elected. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Throughout most of art history, commissioned portraits ennobled their subjects—showing them surrounded by symbols of wealth and virtue, perched regally on a steed or even transported into a New Testament scene. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2011)

But it is clearly the world that is at fault; and the Jewish hero, Anton Trendelssohn Trollope deliberately gave him his own initials, will do everything possible so that society is "ennobled and civilized and made beautiful." ❋ Steven Amarnick (2011)

However, Britain's calls for action against the American side of the "Coalition" ring utterly hollow while Blair is free to skip around the world wreaking havoc, Straw writes articles in The Grauniad, and Britain's even ennobled Lords Reid, Mandelson and Two-Jags... who stride around in ermine, instead of a uniform decorated with arrows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Either human life is ennobled by the dangers and rewards of freedom or we are better off when governments baby-proof reality and shepherd us to the good. ❋ Andrew Klavan (2011)

The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled — he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

As an up-and-comer, he had [found] in [boxing] som-thing ennobling. ❋ Brian Stankowitz (2006)

I [spend] my [sunday] [mornings] ennobling. ❋ J K K Kidd (2007)