2.PGOto make someone a member of the nobility (=the people in society who have a high rank, such as princes etc) 封〔某人〕为贵族
—ennoblement noun [uncountableU]
—ennoblingadjectiveadj
Examples from the Corpus
ennoble• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary - Law Lords - receive life baronies on appointment unless they are already ennobled.• There was something ennobling about it.• He ennobled everything he touched with his brush or his pencil.• The Smiths are a synopsis of pain, a resolution - awkwardness and alienationennobled, given poise.• The Foley family were ennobled in 1711-12.• In any case, in the movie Tolins and Bass took the easier, more ennoblingroute.