ennoble
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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
It’s a conviction that allows us to ennoble ourselves with pathos, with rueful maturity, with wisdom won too late.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021
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
The king again asked: "O venerable sage, you have named all the good qualities that can ennoble humanity; be kind enough to inform me in what he is wanting."
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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