ennoblement

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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

Mr. Wolman avoids gratuitous ennoblement of his characters, but this veteran filmmaker lets tension seep out of tough scenes and tends to telegraph the drama of longer sequences.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2012

He so shares the divine impulses that he has power to subject interested passions to love of country, and personal ambition to the ennoblement of his kind.

From Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America by Bancroft, George