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Honour good Parisienne, backing one of her articles (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ennoble

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'honour' is the definition.
(I know that ennoble is a more specific form of the action honour)

'good parisienne backing one of her articles' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'good' could be 'noble' and 'noble' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'en' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for ennoble that I've seen before include "Kick upstairs" , "Bestow high rank upon" , "Give peerage to" , "Create" , "Bestow peerage on" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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