[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of ennobling; the state or fact of being ennobled. † concr. Something that ennobles.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 15. He added during Parliament, to his former Creations, the Innoblement or aduancement in Nobilitie of a few others.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., i. 2. Æternal Wisdome … inrich’t us with all those enoblements.
1840. Marryat, Olla Podr., II. xix. 40. They look to ennoblement in the Academy.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 243. They never heard of the man’s name … before they heard of his ennoblement.
1871. H. B. Forman, Living Poets, 266. The … faculties … necessary for the flawless ennoblernent of so serious a subject.
