0 past simple and past participle of ennoble
1 to make someone a member of the nobility (= highest social rank)
Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions.
Exacerbating this position, many of the drama's protagonists understand themselves as profoundly isolated by their exceptional situations (whether ennobled or degraded) and attendant emotions.
In the main cities, the protagonists were not only members of the high nobility, but ennobled wealthy citizens as well.
Of the remaining 112 rebels, 24 had died, 9 had been ennobled, 60 had retired, and 19 had been defeated at the polls.
It characters are not ennobled by their learning or profession.
On the other hand, recently ennobled aristocrats were strongly present.
If the majority of new peers were magnates, the crown also ennobled a substantial group of smaller landowners.
Regla, once ennobled, faced the problem of what to do about his heirs.
