Was it not a greater thing to ennoble them than to destroy their artistic representation ?
In other words, the king or other prince can ennoble.
In the grasp of a more inexorable necessity, the champion of Greek freedom was borne onward to a more tremendous catastrophe than that which strewed the waters of Salamis with Persian wrecks and the field of Plataea with Persian dead; but to him, at least, it was given to proclaim aloud the clear and sure foreboding that filled his soul, to do all that true heart and free hand could do for his cause, and, though not to save, yet to encourage, to console and to ennoble.
His A Few Words on Horse-racing, a sport which he did so much to introduce and ennoble, appeared in 1839.
A genuine baron would in medieval times appoint men to certain offices in his barony, but such appointments did not ennoble them.