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Framing the Declaration as more than a manifesto establishing a new nation, Coolidge described it as “everywhere to ennoble humanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The number of people who, out of civic generosity, think that they can enlarge or ennoble their selves by giving their energies to a good larger than themselves?

From Salon ● May 27, 2019

For Hegel, as Hägglund reads him, a religious institution is really just a community that has come together to ennoble “a governing set of norms—a shared understanding of what counts as good and just.”

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

It’s a little like Francois Truffaut’s claim that “There is no such thing as an antiwar film,” because to depict war is to ennoble it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2017

I am grateful for her partiality; but where is the dignity that might ennoble it, or the delicacy that might make it as refined as it is flattering?

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

It’s a great, and possibly fictitious, myth that ennobles an ethos of isolated bravery.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2024

That awful blur is another stain on history, one that ennobles “The High Ground’s” mission.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023

It is also often seen as a form of art that ennobles those who play and listen to it.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021

We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles; that our grief, fear and pain increases our sympathy for the grief, fear and pain of others.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2020

It adorns and ennobles thought till it becomes full-fledged for the flight toward the ideal.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

Better to live in a world where freedom of expression is ubiquitous than one where the “truth” is told to us by a few ennobled journalists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Lord Houchen is the Conservative mayor for Tees Valley, which includes Stockton, and was ennobled in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023

But on the very eve of publication, Trevor-Roper, who had been ennobled as Baron Dacre, called to say he had changed his mind and now felt they were forgeries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

And that is the thing about generative AI and language learning models: They exist only by feeding on the ennobled human soul.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023

These opportunities, therefore, made these men successful, and their outstanding virtue enabled them to recognize that opportunity, whereby their nation was ennobled and became extremely happy.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Those new to Mr. Helprin’s work will discover his “grit, romanticism and impish humor” and a celebration of “the ennobling effects of romantic love and beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Shostakovich’s detractors have accused him of ennobling Stalin while defenders have sought out subtle musical cues of dissent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

It adds an ennobling air to their real function, which is propaganda.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2023

In 1650, Diego Velázquez painted this ennobling portrait of Juan de Pareja, a studio assistant enslaved in his studio.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

And this confession made his romantic gestures all the more ennobling.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan