Both Uses of
enable
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- National opinion has enabled this last class to maintain the Negro common schools, and to protect the Negro partially in property, life, and limb.†
Chpt 3enabled = made possible
- Their better character and greater shrewdness enable them to gain, perhaps to demand, better terms in rents; rented farms, varying from forty to a hundred acres, bear an average rental of about fifty-four dollars a year.†
Chpt 8 *enable = make possible
Definition:
to make possible
in 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."