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Ennoblement is the
conferring of nobility—the
induction of an
individual into the
noble class.
Currently only a few
kingdoms still grant nobility to people;...
- bourgeois, most
particularly the
members of the
various parlements, were
ennobled by the king,
constituting the
noblesse de robe. The old
nobility of landed...
- from
cavalry officer Lieutenant Nils
Gunnarsson Haal (died 1680 or 1681),
ennobled in 1652 with a
change of name to "Gyllenhaal". The name "Gyllenhaal" originated...
- authority, not the Pope or tradition. sola
nobilitat virtus virtue alone ennobles Similar to
virtus sola
nobilitas solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris...
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during colonial times. In 1738 Sebastião José de
Carvalho e Melo,
later ennobled 1st
Marquis of Pombal,
began a
career as the
Portuguese Amb****ador in London...
- was
ennobled as a
prince in 1884.
Nakayama Tadayasu, the
Meiji Emperor's
maternal grandfather and also from an urin-ranked family, was
ennobled as a...
- 21,
Reddy established a
residuary non-banking
finance company called,
Ennoble India Savings &
Investment Company Limited,
under the RBI in 1989. Across...
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honoured temples of the
idols [pagan
Roman gods] destro****, but in
order to
ennoble and
decorate Saint Peter's with more
ornaments than it then possessed,...
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Mexico City. The
elevation of
silver mining as a
profession and the
ennoblement of
silver miners was a
development of the eighteenth-century Bourbon...
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whether it
actually concerned her or not. This was
probably also done to "
ennoble" the sultan's
slave mother,
attributing her
noble origins,
often "merging"...
