OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# homolog
## English
### Alternative forms

* homologon (archaic)
* homologue

### Etymology

Borrowed from French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), equivalent to homo- +‎ -log.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒməlɒɡ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈhɑːməlɑːɡ/, /ˈhoʊməlɑːɡ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

homolog (plural homologs)
* Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
** (linguistics) A phoneme, morpheme, or word shared by two languages or dialects, via cognation or naturalization.
** (biology, genetics, medicine) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry, or the peptides or proteins that they encode; the counterpart gene or protein in another taxon evolved from a common ancestor (molecularly it may be either identical or similar).
    Hyponyms: ortholog, paralog
    TP53 is the human homolog of murine Trp53.
*** 2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, edited by Ratko Magjarevic, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1‎ (Biomedical Engineering), →ISBN, page 171:Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.
*** 2012, Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.
** (organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series.
** (cultural anthropology) A belief, practice, concept, or artifact that has a counterpart in another culture.

#### Related terms

* homologize
* homologous
* homologous series
* homology

#### See also

* analog
* homotype

### Anagrams

* hog loom, hog-loom, hogloom

## German
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /homoˈloːk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo‧log

### Adjective

homolog (strong nominative masculine singular homologer, not comparable)
* homologous (all senses)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “homolog” in Duden online

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French homologue.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ho‧mo‧log

### Adjective

homolog
* homologous

### References

* “homolog”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
# استفہام
## Urdu
### Etymology

From Arabic اِسْتِفْهَام (istifhām).

### Noun

استفہام • (istefhām) m (Hindi spelling इस्तेफ़हाम)
* query
# sequuturos
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /se.kʷuːˈtuː.roːs/, [s̠ɛkuːˈt̪uːroːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /se.kwuˈtu.ros/, [sekwuˈt̪uːros]

### Participle

sequūtūrōs
* accusative masculine plural of sequūtūrus
# dunje
## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

dunje (Cyrillic spelling дуње)
* inflection of dunja:
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural
** genitive singular
# rugate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin rugatus, past participle of rugare (“to wrinkle”), from ruga (“a wrinkle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹuːɡeɪt/, /ˈɹuːɡət/

### Adjective

rugate (comparative more rugate, superlative most rugate)
* Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
** c. 1848, James Dwight Dana, Zoophytes:Unifacial, superior surface transversely rugate, with minute oririmes at the bottom of the furrows
* Having a varying refractive index.
** 2002, Bruce E. Perilloux, Thin-film Design, page 7:Rugate coatings typically consist of a single layer deposited onto a substrate where the refractive index of the layer continuously changes as a function of depth.
** 2013, John Polo, Tom Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Electromagnetic Surface Waves: A Modern Perspective, page 193:Researchers have focused on various manufactured periodically nonhomogeneous dielectric materials, including rugate filters and periodically multilayered materials.

#### Synonyms

* bewrinkled, rugose, wrinkly; see also Thesaurus:wrinkled

### Anagrams

* Tuareg, Tauger, truage, argute, Ugarte

## Spanish
### Verb

rugate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of rugar combined with te
# vazhdat
## Albanian
### Noun

vazhdat
* definite nominative/accusative plural of vazhdë
# għaqadt
## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈʔat/
* IPA: /aˤːˈʔat/ (archaic)

### Verb

għaqadt
* first/second-person singular perfect of għaqad
# 網笠茸
## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 網 | 笠 | 茸 |
| あみ Grade: S | かさ > がさ Jinmeiyō | たけ Jinmeiyō |
| kun'yomi |||

### Etymology

網笠(あみがさ) (amigasa, “woven hat”) + 茸(たけ) (take, “mushroom”)

### Noun

網笠茸(あみがさだけ) or 網笠茸(アミガサダケ) • (amigasadake)
* morel, Morchella esculenta var. esculenta

#### Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).
# 一探究竟
## Chinese

| | | one; single; aone; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.) | to explore; to search out; to scoutto explore; to search out; to scout; to visit | to go to the bottom of; to probe to the bottom |
| trad. (一探究竟) | trad. (一探究竟) | 一 | 探 | 究竟 |
| simp. $^#$(一探究竟) | simp. $^#$(一探究竟) | 一 | 探 | 究竟 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yītànjiūjìng
    (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yītànjiūjìng
*** Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡ ㄐㄧㄥˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yitànjioujìng
*** Wade–Giles: i$^1$-tʻan$^4$-chiu$^1$-ching$^4$
*** Yale: yī-tàn-jyōu-jìng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: itannjioujinq
*** Palladius: итаньцзюцзин (itanʹczjuczin)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵⁵ tʰän⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

### Verb

一探究竟
* to check something out; to investigate
# Faraday
## English
### Etymology

Anglicized from Irish Ó Fearadaigh.

### Proper noun

Faraday (countable and uncountable, plural Faradays)
* A surname from Irish.
** 2024 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Meet Me in the Eternal City”, in The Atlantic‎, →ISSN:Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.

#### Derived terms

* Faraday bag
* Faraday cage
* Faraday dark space
* Faraday pointer
* Faraday rotation
* Faraday tensor
* Faradayan

#### See also

* Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Faraday.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.raˈdɛj/
* Rhymes: -ɛj
* Syllabification: Fa‧ra‧day

### Proper noun

Faraday m pers
* a male surname

#### Declension
### Proper noun

Faraday f (indeclinable)
* a female surname

### See also

* Appendix:Polish surnames
# dunju
## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

dunju (Cyrillic spelling дуњу)
* accusative singular of dunja
# verande
## Albanian
### Noun

verande
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of verandë

## Italian
### Noun

verande f
* plural of veranda

### Anagrams

* darvene, rendeva, venderà

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

verande
* present participle of vere
* present participle of vera

#### Derived terms

* borteverande
* daverande
* dåverande
* fråverande
* førverande
* gjenverande
* noverande
* nåverande
# għaqar
## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic عَقَرَ (ʕaqara).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaː.ʔar/
* IPA: /ˈaˤː.ʔar/ (archaic)

### Verb

għaqar (imperfect jagħqar, past participle magħqur)
* to ulcerate
* to be suspicious of (someone)
# fucose
## English
### Noun

fucose (plural fucoses)
* (biochemistry) The aldohexose (3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-methyloxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol present in several glycans and mucopolysaccharides

#### Derived terms

* deoxyfucose
* fucoside

#### Translations
## Latin
### Adjective

fūcōse
* vocative masculine singular of fūcōsus
# underflow
## English
### Etymology

From under- +‎ flow, modelled on overflow.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

underflow (countable and uncountable, plural underflows)
* A current flowing below the surface.
* (computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
* (computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.

#### Related terms

* overflow

#### Translations
### Verb

underflow (third-person singular simple present underflows, present participle underflowing, simple past and past participle underflowed)
* (computing) To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
* (computing) To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.
** 2022, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition (page 255)
    Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]

### Anagrams

* wonderful, wondreful
# secuturam
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /se.kuːˈtuː.ram/, [s̠ɛkuːˈt̪uːrä̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /se.kuˈtu.ram/, [sekuˈt̪uːräm]

### Participle

secūtūram
* accusative feminine singular of secūtūrus
# 画る
## Japanese

* Kanji in this term
* 画
* はか Grade: 2
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 畫る (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 画る – see the following entry. :
| 【図はかる】 | [verb] to plan, to plot, to aim (to do something) [verb] 画る: to draw a blueprint, to plan by drawing Alternative spellings 謀る, 課る |
(This term, 画る, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :
# ballister
## English
### Etymology

From Latin ballista. Compare balister.

### Noun

ballister (plural ballisters)
* (obsolete) A crossbow or ballista.
** 1872 June, H. H. Howorth, “Jingis Khan”, in The Phœnix, volume 2, number 24, page 198:Their ramparts were armed with 3,000 ballisters to shoot javelins with and 500 catapults.
** 1911, William Alfred Dutt, Norfolk, page 83:On their E. side are four round solid towers, at the top of wach of which is a slight depression, supposed to have contained a watch turret or some implement of warfare, such as a ballister.
** 1990, Abhai Maurya, India and World Literature, page 214:He orderd that the crippled should be flung by a ballister and the blind should be dragged from Delhi to Daulatabad, a distance of 40 days .
* Alternative form of baluster; a short pillar.
** 1756, Thomas Nugent, The grand tour, page 116:The choir, which is separated from the body of the church by a ballister, is darkned by the great number of escutcheons affixed to it .
** 1849, Minard Lafever, The Modern Builder's Guide, page 80:In the fourth cavity, which is much the largest, and is in the centre of this upper surace, a ballister was in all likelihood inserted; its use was to support the tripod, and to give it that stability which its situation required .
** 1993, Mary Raddant Tomlan, A Neat Plain Modern Stile, page 193:Hooker billed Van Rensselaer $6.25 on 17 August 1820 for timber, dressing turning, carting, setting [and] painting a ballister for & setting a sun dial.
** 2024, Jenny Jina, Altaf Jina, Family, Entrepreneurship and Service, page 178:It's a ballister shape with handles made of boxwood.
* A brace on a brass instrument that helps hold the valves in place.
** 1940, Montgomery Ward Catalog, page 550:Solid nickel silver ballisters and mouthpipe for longer wear, better tone, ease of blowing.
** 1991, Dictionary of Occupational Titles - Volume 2, page 747:Drills connecting tube holes in valve, taps internal and external threads in valve and ballisters, and cuts recess in top of valve or ballisters, using drill press. Fits ballisters onto valve and solders them into place with soft solder.
** 2009, Mark C. Ely, Amy E. Van Deuren, Wind Talk for Brass, pages 1-89:Typically, the location of ballister braces alternate so that the first and third valves have braces on one side of the trumpet, while the second valve has the ballister brace on the other side of the trumpet.

### Anagrams

* barillets
# 펠트펜
## Korean
### Etymology

Borrowed from English felt pen.

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [pʰe̞ɭtʰɯpʰe̞n]
* Phonetic hangul: [펠트펜]

### Noun

펠트펜 • (pelteupen)
* felt-tip pen
    Synonyms: 마킹펜 (makingpen), 마커펜 (makeopen), 마커 (makeo)
# għaqdet
## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːʔ.dɛt/
* IPA: /ˈaˤːʔ.dɛt/ (archaic)

### Verb

għaqdet
* third-person feminine singular perfect of għaqad
# fucoxanthin
## English
### Etymology

From Latin fūcus (from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”)) + ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”) +‎ -in.

### Noun

fucoxanthin (countable and uncountable, plural fucoxanthins)
* (organic chemistry) A carotenoid pigment found in the chloroplasts of brown algae.

#### Derived terms

* isofucoxanthin
# emerse
## English
### Verb

emerse (third-person singular simple present emerses, present participle emersing, simple past and past participle emersed)
* Obsolete form of immerse.
** 1893, Eugene F. Starke, Wilson A. Smith, Wesley A. Dunn, The Medical Current (volume 9, page 458)
    Nothing further is required but to emerse the bottle in hot water for a few moments, take out the stopper and put on the nipple.

### See also

* emersed

## Italian
### Adjective

emerse
* feminine plural of emerso

### Verb

emerse
* third-person singular past historic of emergere

## Latin
### Participle

ēmerse
* vocative masculine singular of ēmersus
# poteaux roses
## French
### Noun

poteaux roses (m)
* plural of poteau rose
# assequor
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* adsequor

### Etymology

From ad- +‎ sequor (“follow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈas.se.kʷor/, [ˈäs̠ːɛkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈas.se.kwor/, [ˈäsːekwor]

### Verb

assequor (present infinitive assequī, perfect active assecūtus sum or assequūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent
* to follow someone in order to come up to him; pursue, go after
* to overtake, come up with, reach, catch up
* to gain, obtain, procure; achieve
* to attain to someone in any quality; equal, rival, match
* to comprehend, understand

#### Derived terms

* assecūtor

#### Related terms

* cōnsequor
* exsequor
* īnsequor
* obsequor
* persequor
* prōsequor
* resequor
* sequor
* subsequor

### References

* “assequor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* assequor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to catch some one up: consequi, assequi aliquem to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror to carry out one's plan: propositum assequi, peragere to reach the highest grade of office: amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci to overtake the enemy: hostes assequi, consequi
# caktova
## Albanian
### Verb

caktova
* first-person singular aorist of caktoj
# borș
## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian борщ (boršč) or Ukrainian борщ (boršč), from Proto-Slavic *bъrščь.

### Noun

borș n (plural borșuri)
* liquid fermented wheat or barley bran
* soured soup
* borscht
* (slang) blood
# għaqli
## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic عَقْلِيّ (ʕaqliyy). By surface analysis, għaqal +‎ -i.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːʔ.lɪ/
* IPA: /ˈaˤːʔ.lɪ/ (archaic)

### Adjective

għaqli (feminine singular għaqlija, plural għaqlin)
* wise, rational, prudent, smart
    Synonym: dehni
    Antonyms: iblah, baħnan
# differencing
## English
### Adjective

differencing (comparative more differencing, superlative most differencing)
* (obsolete) Different; distinguishing.
** 1750, Daniel Williams, Practical Discourses on several important subjects, page 513:Nay, it would follow, that Adam after he sinned, and was condemned by the Covenant of works, had terms of Life offered to him by that very same Covenant which he was condemned by: Which, with a hundred more differencing things, would raise a Blush in a modest person to assert, that ist was in Adam's violated Covenant of works, that Christ was a joint Party with us.
** 1835, John Howe, The Works, page 1180:There is belonging, as very peculiar, (and some think it is most of all peculiar) to the mind and spirit of man, the capacity of religion, of which the brute creature is altogether incapable: some think this more differencing of man than reason itself.
** 1853, Matthew Poole, Annotations Upon the Holy Bible, page 810:His is more differencing and transcending in his kind than the name of angels is in their kind ; he is above whatever they can pretend to, and so a more excellent Prophet than they.
* Involving the taking of differences or noting of changes.
** 1992, Journal of Banking & Finance - Volume 16, page 72:The volatility also tends to increase continuously with the length of the differencing interval.
** 2011, Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Administrator's Companion:The differencing disk points to the original base .vhd file, and the only thing that gets saved to the differencing disk is any change from the base VM.
** 2023, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security, page 21:If you notice, we have only added more differencing terms, while the rest of the equation remains the same.

#### Derived terms

* undifferencing

### Verb

differencing
* present participle and gerund of difference
# streaked weever
## English
### Noun

streaked weever (plural streaked weevers)
* Any member of species Trachinus radiatus of fish found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic.
    Synonym: starry weever
# あきた
## Japanese
### Etymology 1

* Alternative spellings
* 飽きた 厭きた 倦きた

#### Verb

あきた • (akita)
* past tense of あきる (akiru) [ichidan]

### Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of あきた – see the following entry. :
| 【秋田】 | [proper noun] Akita (the capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan) [proper noun] Akita (a prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan) [proper noun] a surname |
(This term, あきた (akita), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) :
# calmlike
## English
### Adverb

calmlike (comparative more calmlike, superlative most calmlike)
* (dialectal) calmly
** 2000 January 12, VxTiger, “Tigerlily's entrance”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai‎ (Usenet):"We don't have time to stop if you heard something, investigate it we will go on with out you." Squall said surprisingly calmlike.
** 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:If we can just talk calm-like wit' da boss, he'll understand

### Adjective

calmlike (comparative more calmlike, superlative most calmlike)
* (dialectal) calm
** 2005, Joyce Elbrecht, Lydia Fakundiny, Hearing, page 86:When I opened a Bible and ordered them to read it out to me, well, William commenced in a calm-like manner—reminded me of your Pappy, Mr. Geoffrey, sir—never missed a word.
# Basa Jawa
## Javanese

Javanese writing system :
| Carakan | ꦧꦱꦗꦮ |
| Pegon | باسا جاوا |
| Roman | Basa Jawa |

### Romanization

Basa Jawa
* Romanization of ꦧꦱꦗꦮ
# tave
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English taven, from Old Norse *tafa, from Proto-Germanic *tabōn (“to grope, feel”). Cognate with Faroese tava (“to endeavour, exert oneself”), Norwegian Nynorsk tava (“to toil in vain”), German zabeln (“to move convulsively, sprawl, flounder”).

### Verb

tave (third-person singular simple present taves, present participle taving, simple past and past participle taved)
* (intransitive) To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
* (intransitive) To toss or tumble oneself about; act violently, rage, throw a fit.
* (intransitive) To struggle, toil, strive, labour.
* (intransitive) To trudge, walk heavily.
* (ambitransitive) To wrestle.
* (intransitive, dialectal) To hurry along; gad about.
* (transitive, dialectal) To distress, overtire.

### Noun

tave (plural taves)
* (dialectal) A difficulty, struggle.
* (dialectal) A hurry, stir, commotion.

## Albanian
### Noun

tave
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of tavë

## Catalan
### Noun

tave m (plural taves)
* Alternative form of tàvec

## Cypriot Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic تَوّ (taww).

### Adjective

tave
* (of time) exact, specific

### References

* Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 176

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɐˈʋʲɛ]

### Pronoun

tavè
* second-person singular accusative of tu
# għaqlin
## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʔˈliːn/
* IPA: /aˤːʔˈliːn/ (archaic)

### Adjective

għaqlin
* plural of għaqli
# fuel cell
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfjuː(ə)l sɛl/
* Hyphenation: fuel cell

### Noun

fuel cell (plural fuel cells)
* (energy) An electrochemical device in which the intrinsic chemical free energy of fuel and oxidant is catalytically converted to direct current energy.
** 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Fuel battery locomotives?”, in Modern Railways, page 87:A new energy source claimed by Mr. Coultas to be potentially applicable to locomotives is the fuel cell, now becoming more commonly known as the fuel battery. [...] The fuel cells which are furthest advanced in engineering development today use hydrogen as the fuel.
** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Vehicles: M35 Mako Codex entry:The Mako is powered by a sealed hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell, and includes a small element zero core. While not large enough to nullify the vehicle’s mass, the core can reduce it enough to be safely air-dropped.
** 2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 30:Fuel cells have a shorter lifetime than batteries and their overall efficiency of a hydrogen train is much less - recent figures from Stadler show that just 25% of the energy reaches the wheels for a hydrogen train, compared with 80% for conventional electric tration or around 68% for a battery-electric train.
* (energy) Synonym of fuel tank: A fuel storage tank.
** (motor racing) A fuel tank with a flexible inner liner to reduce the risk of puncture.

#### Derived terms

* enzymatic fuel cell
* fuel cell vehicle

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “ASOCIACIÓN / COLEGIO NACIONAL DE INGENIEROS DEL ICAI”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2007 August 4 (last accessed), archived from the original on 6 January 2010
* ↑ “Cience@NASA – Células Frías de Combustible”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2007 August 4 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 July 2007

### Further reading

* fuel cell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
# ennobling
## English
### Adjective

ennobling (comparative more ennobling, superlative most ennobling)
* Acting or tending to ennoble.
** 1755, P. Shaw, Man, a paper for ennobling the species:Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
** 2010, C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, page 140:He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.
** 2012, Jerome Klapka, Carolyn Oulton, Weeds, page 53:It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.

#### Derived terms

* ennoblingly
* unennobling

### Verb

ennobling
* present participle and gerund of ennoble

### Noun

ennobling (plural ennoblings)
* An act of making noble.
** 1849, William Jay, Sermons: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.