All 3 Uses
ennoble
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- Meantime, the Greeks the Trojan race pursue, And some bold chieftain every leader slew: First Odius falls, and bites the bloody sand, His death ennobled by Atrides' hand: As he to flight his wheeling car address'd, The speedy javelin drove from back to breast.†
Book 5
- He sigh'd; but, sighing, raised his vengeful steel, And from his car the proud Thymbraeus fell: Molion, the charioteer, pursued his lord, His death ennobled by Ulysses' sword.†
Book 11
- Great Jove, to swell the horrors of the fight, O'er the fierce armies pours pernicious night, And round his son confounds the warring hosts, His fate ennobling with a crowd of ghosts.†
Book 16 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(ennoble) to give honor or dignity
or:
to make someone a member of the nobility - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)