[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That ennobles; elevating, refining.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 206. He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. clxxvii. Ye Elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., § 5. 167. The ennobling influences of the pursuit of knowledge.
Hence Ennoblingly adv.
1823. Moore, Rhymes Road, v. 104. All that in Man most ennoblingly towers.
