ennoblement
Example Sentences
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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
What Blank and Jensen’s labors manage to add is a certain ennoblement through art; the actors lend their gifts of supplying interpretive texture to open a window on the soul of helping professions.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
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
Second: Because it is impracticable, unjust, and detrimental to development and ennoblement of the human race, which is the manifest object of human creation.
From Why I am opposed to socialism by Various
