All 6 Uses
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The Red Badge of Courage
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- But, from his present point of view, there was a halo of happiness about each of their heads, and he would have sacrificed all the brass buttons on the continent to have been enabled to return to them.†
Chpt 2enabled = made possible
- He craved a power that would enable him to make a world-sweeping gesture and brush all back.†
Chpt 5 *enable = make possible
- Their density would not enable them to understand his sharper point of view.†
Chpt 7
- And this inward confidence evidently enabled him to be indifferent to little words of other men aimed at him.†
Chpt 14enabled = made possible
- Gradually his brain emerged from the clogged clouds, and at last he was enabled to more closely comprehend himself and circumstance.†
Chpt 24
- From this present view point he was enabled to look upon them in spectator fashion and criticise them with some correctness, for his new condition had already defeated certain sympathies.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(enable) to make possiblein various senses, including:
- to give someone the ability, knowledge, or authority to do something -- as in "The study will enable an informed discussion."
- to activate a computer system for use -- as in "You can enable the feature in the Settings Page."
- to permit someone to repeat bad behavior, so they reinforce the bad pattern -- as in "I don't want to enable her drug addiction."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)