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

To create a mass of great pictures, statues, and buildings is of the same sort of ennoblement to a people as to create great poems or histories, or make great codes, or win great battles.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)