Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship, and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
I think, in part, we mythologize sacrifice, ennoble it with layer upon layer of redemptive they-did-not-suffer-and-die-in-vain meaning, because it enables us to bear the pain of loss.
Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are " beefy" , lazy people are " couch potatoes" , unresponsive ones " vegetables" .
As a result, the relatives and friends of the Cao family changed from the previous situation of being suppressed and began to be promoted and ennobled.
Usually, when artists looked in the mirror, they liked what they saw, and what they saw were men, young or old, whose features were ennobled by their calling to bring virtue, beauty and grace into the world.
But Trump claims that the purpose of the order was to " uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States." Biden overturned it pretty much soon after he got into office in 2021.
Let her only determine, without being too anxious about present happiness, to acquire the qualities that ennoble a rational being, and a rough, inelegant husband may shock her taste without destroying her peace of mind.
She knew it for what it was; Mr. Bell's kindly sophistry that nearly all men were guilty of equivocal actions, and that the motive ennobled the evil, had never had much real weight with her.
Such proof as he offered came, therefore, as a kind of crowning luxury, the flower of a profoundly rooted sentiment; and here again the instinctive reserves and defenses would have seemed to vulgarize what his trust ennobled.