ennoblement

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Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

The art of representation here is an ennoblement of human impulses to rescue and to survive.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2021

The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

We needed only to invent a narrative of cultural significance for our passivity, the minimum required for the ennoblement of our mutual defeat.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

Their self is conquered, not through ennoblement of personality, but through annihilation of personality.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis