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nobility |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Nobility \No*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. nobilitas: cf OF nobilit['e]. See {Noble}.] 1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it --Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to control, And named their pride nobility of soul. --Dryden. 2. The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred. I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda --Dryden. 3. Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as the English nobility. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: nobility n 1: a privileged class holding hereditary titles [syn: {aristocracy}] 2: the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct [syn: {magnanimousness}, {grandeur}] 3: the state of being of noble birth [syn: {noblesse}]
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