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
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
Remember that the slightest act of volition on your part can exalt my pecuniary status to the skies, as well as confer distinguished and unparagoned ennoblement upon your cacoëthes scribendi.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
