ennoblement
Example Sentences
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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
Shoes on his feet we can understand, but there is to be a ring, honour, ennoblement!
From The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) by Mark Rutherford
