Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Noble birth; rank; state; dignity.
- noun The body of nobles; the nobility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The body of nobles; the nobility.
- noun obsolete Noble birth; nobility; dignity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The body of
nobles ; thenobility . - noun obsolete Noble
birth ;nobility ;dignity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That being a snooze for the average American, now, desperately, they are doing their 2nd big PR stunt (the first being the Palin nomination) - by "nobley" giving up campaigning to save the country.
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You will sarcfice your self nobley so that others may live out there life with out crazy zombies around every turn.
My Spirit Animal amberfocus 2009
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To make Blair into a victim who was helplessly abused because she was nobley "unable why? to respond" demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of our system.
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I've always thought Snape was ultimately working for the good-guys; I'd never considered that he'd be the one to die nobley at the end.
OSC on Snape 2007
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Derek Simpson and others working nobley for this new project, could do worse than contact the General Federation of Iraqi Workers and the comrades who work with them in the Kurdistan Workers' Syndicates in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Just In Time - Good News in 2006. Harry Barnes 2006
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Derek Simpson and others working nobley for this new project, could do worse than contact the General Federation of Iraqi Workers and the comrades who work with them in the Kurdistan Workers' Syndicates in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Archive 2006-12-01 Harry Barnes 2006
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Sir Launcelot the prize, the next was Sir Lamorak de Galis, the third was Sir Palomides, the fourth was King Bagdemagus; so these four knights had the prize, and there was great joy, and great nobley in all the court.
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And then Arthur made Sir Tristram Knight of the Table Round, with great nobley and great feast as might be thought.
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One day a knight of great beauty and nobley, as Sir Thomas Mallory would have said, came to
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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King Arthur made Sir Tristram knight of the Table Round with great nobley and feasting as can be thought.
The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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