Literary notes about enabled (AI summary)
In literature, “enabled” often functions to link a character’s or object’s inherent or acquired capacity to a consequential outcome, emphasizing a cause‐and‐effect relationship. For instance, Nietzsche is portrayed as being enabled to enter a prize competition [1], while Chekhov’s witty nature is noted as having enabled him to avert personal tragedy [2]. In other contexts, the term highlights how technological innovations or favorable circumstances empower actions, as when lunar modules’ equipment is enabled to perform complex tasks [3] or navigational calculations become possible via precise measurements [4]. It also conveys personal and social metamorphosis, seen in instances where individuals are enabled to assume new roles [5] or overcome adversities [6], thereby underscoring a dynamic interplay between potential and fulfillment across diverse literary settings.
- Later, however, it enabled Nietzsche to enter for the prize offered by the University of Leipzig for an essay, De fontibus Diogenis Laertii.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Chekhov just escaped the tragedy of suicide by introspection, and was only enabled to do this by the possession of a sense of humour.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - LRVs enabled the astronauts to carry heavy, bulky equipment and to place scientific instruments at considerable distances from the lunar module.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution - 415 These 168 tables enabled the navigator to calculate his latitudes by observing the altitude of the sun.
— from A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499 - I am the happiest of men when I am enabled to serve persons of your merit.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Donald's genius would have enabled him to get a footing anywhere, without anybody's help!
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy