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ennoble

[en-noh-buhl] / ɛnˈnoʊ bəl /
VERB
honor
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The author makes clear that suffering, despite popular mythology, typically does not ennoble.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

To ennoble what could seem a shallow, idiosyncratic gesture, I call this campaign the post-nominal revolution, hoping for a future when you will never have to use anyone’s name, ever.

From New York Times • May 30, 2019

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

The Greek terms ennoble the ailments, even if they don’t make them go away.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Is it not rather the fact that to us they have become dead forms: that they no longer appeal to our sentiments, that they fail to stir, to invigorate, to ennoble us?

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix




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