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Ennoblement   Listen
noun
Ennoblement  n.  
1.
The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
2.
That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.





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"Ennoblement" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature of the case must be, better fitted for manual than for mental labour. They argue also that the new departure tends to foster materialistic notions of the value of education, the main object of which should be the ennoblement of the worker rather than the production of more cotton, sugar, coal, iron or lumber.... Then, again, the surprising success in some schools, and notably in one, in mastering the more advanced branches ...
— From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike
... rule of the intellect. Symonds says of him: "It was he who irrevocably decided the destinies of the romantic drama; and the whole subsequent evolution of that species, including Shakespeare's work, can be regarded as the expansion, rectification, and artistic ennoblement of the type fixed by Marlowe's epoch-making tragedies. In very little more than fifty years from the publication of Tamburlaine, our drama had run its course of unparalleled energy ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... it becomes a question of harmonizing the claims of the improvement of the race with the claims of the individual to happiness in love. She points out that on this aspect real harmony becomes more possible. Regard for the ennoblement of the race serves as a bridge from a chaos of conflicting tendencies to a truer conception of love, and "love must become on a higher plane what it was in primitive days—a religion." She compares the growth of the conception of the vital value of love to the modern growth of the conception ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... John the Baptist who took ennoblement rather than repentance for his text. Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date. Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... 'The triumph of my career,' he murmured. 'The coping-stone of my virtuosity. The cause of my ennoblement.' ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 • Various


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