0 past simple and past participle of ennoble --
1 to make someone a member of the nobility (= highest social rank) --
He will not become greatly ennobled, or enriched, or otherwise rewarded by taking on this task.
It is all according to whether one thinks that they are being ennobled or are struggling after a liability.
I could go even further, and say it would be ennobled by such a decision.
Great families, both old boyar and newly ennobled, and their clients jockeyed for power.
Clearly, then, the expectation was that the newly ennobled who lacked magnate status at the time of their elevation would correct that deficiency within a generation or two.
It was, in other words, the ennobled fraction of the oligarchy, a noblesse de robe, or new aristocracy that had grown up in the service of the crown.
Shuvalov belonged to one of the newly ennobled families who perceived the need to combine technical knowledge with a sensitivity to social concerns.
Regla, once ennobled, faced the problem of what to do about his heirs.
