Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the nobility.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the nobility.
  • noun A history of noble families.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A history of noble families.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the nobility.

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  • adjective pertaining or related to nobility

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French nobiliaire, from Latin nōbilis, noble; see noble.]

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Examples

  • Valette (she probably had no right to the "nobiliary" _de_ although she signed her name thus) was the daughter of Pierre Valette,

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • Mr. Iggulden's editors should have also known that the nobiliary particle "von" is not capitalized.

    Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011

  • So after the great royal and nobiliary collections that gave rise to the first museums, there appeared less ambitious collections gathered by wealthy enthusiasts who shared a mutual taste for quality, and not only a lure toward curiosity as was common in Renaissance cabinets.

    18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006

  • The nobiliary particule he did not add to his signature until the year 1830.

    Balzac 2003

  • And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war.

    Time Regained 2003

  • Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B —, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out.

    The Calash 2003

  • Amongst these latter was above all conspicuous Pythagoras Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B-- --, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • The nobiliary particule he did not add to his signature until the year 1830.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • The nobiliary particule he did not add to his signature until the year 1830.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

  • The latter abandoned his royal rank and titles, and assumed the merely nobiliary status of a Prince of Noer, in order to make her his consort.

    The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

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