ennobling adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Acting or tending to ennoble.Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences. — 1755 noun1 •An act of making noble.They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it. — 1849 formsennoblings · more ennobling · most ennobling