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Ennoblement
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ennoblement
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaltation |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, dignity, elevation, glorification, praise, praising |
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| Main Entry: | exaltation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promotion, praise |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, advancement, aggrandizement, apotheosis, applause, blessing, dignity, elevation, eminence, ennoblement, extolment, glorification, glory, grandeur, high rank, homage, honor, idolization, laudation, lionization, loftiness, magnification, panegyric, plaudits, prestige, reverence, rise, tribute, upgrading, uplifting, worship |
| Antonyms: | castigation, condemnation, criticism, debasement, denunciation, humiliation |
| Main Entry: | nobility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aristocracy; eminence |
| Synonyms: | dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | promotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher position in organization |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, advocacy, aggrandizement, backing, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, bump, elevation, encouragement, ennoblement, exaltation, favoring, furtherance, go-ahead, hike, honor, improvement, jump, jump up, lift, move up, preference, preferment, prelation, progress, raise, rise, step up, support, upgrade, upgrading |
| Antonyms: | demotion |
| Main Entry: | idealization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | glorification |
| Synonyms: | ennoblement, honor, magnification |
| Main Entry: | aggrandizement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaltation |
| Synonyms: | aggrandization, elevation, ennoblement, glorification, praising, tribute |
| Main Entry: | noblesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobility |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, blue blood, dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
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| Concept: | Elevation. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
elevation; raising; erection, lift; sublevation, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence (convexity)., lever; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine; dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
-verbs
heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal., take up, drag up, fish up; dredge., stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
-adjectives
elevated; stilted, attollent, rampant.
-adverbs
on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
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| Antonyms: | depression |
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| Concept: | Nobility. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime., high life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world (fashion)., peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku [all Japanese]; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate., gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy, better sort, magnates, primates, optimates; pantisocracy., king (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave., princess, begum, duchess, marchioness; countess; lady, dame; memsahib; maharani, rani., personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, nobilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster [U.S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lucan]; "every inch a king" [Lear].
-verbs
be noble
-adjectives
noble, exalted; of rank; princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-born, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly (fashionable) [more]; highly respectable.
-adverbs
in high quarters.
-phrases
Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete [Ger.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei [Ger.]; noblesse oblige [Fr.].
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| Antonyms: | commonalty |
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