ennoble
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The author makes clear that suffering, despite popular mythology, typically does not ennoble.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
To ennoble what could seem a shallow, idiosyncratic gesture, I call this campaign the post-nominal revolution, hoping for a future when you will never have to use anyone’s name, ever.
From New York Times • May 30, 2019
The number of people who, out of civic generosity, think that they can enlarge or ennoble their selves by giving their energies to a good larger than themselves?
From Salon • May 27, 2019
For Hegel, as Hägglund reads him, a religious institution is really just a community that has come together to ennoble “a governing set of norms—a shared understanding of what counts as good and just.”
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019
To ennoble, the mind must be noble; if debased, it can only debase.
From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Dresser, Christopher
Vocabulary lists containing ennoble
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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