Definition of "ennoblement" [en•no•ble•ment]

• The state of being noble (noun)
• The act of ennobling or something which ennobles (noun)

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• "a nation of new civilisation by what may be called the ennoblement of its lower classes."
• "To be cut out by a prince has always been a kind of ennoblement in itself."
• "In the 1960s in Poland, getting a prison tattoo required special skills and criminal ambition - it was a kind of ennoblement, each tattoo in the criminal world was meaningful."