Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.
- noun The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.
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- noun Alternative form of
noblesse .
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Examples
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In other words, the ticket prices are subsidized by the nobless oblige of the wealthy, a large number of whom consider it their obligation to support the arts.
Odds and ends May 21, 2009 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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In 1337, a tournament in Rennes gathered together all the nobless of the country.
Archive 2008-03-02 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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In 1337, a tournament in Rennes gathered together all the nobless of the country.
Bertrand du Guesclin de Brantigny........................ 2008
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But perhaps the sense of triangulation, nobless oblige, and even cockiness has turned on him.
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But perhaps the sense of triangulation, nobless oblige, and even cockiness has turned on him.
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But perhaps the sense of triangulation, nobless oblige, and even cockiness has turned on him.
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There might a been seen great nobless of fair harness and rich armoury of banners and pennons; for there was all the flower of France, there was none durst abide at home without he would be shamed for ever.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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There might a been seen great nobless of fair harness and rich armoury of banners and penons; for there was all the flower of France, there was none durst abide at home without he would be shamed for ever.
The Battle of Poitiers. Of the Order of the Frenchmen before the Battle of Poitiers 1909
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There might a been seen great nobless of fair harness and rich armoury of banners and pennons; for there was all the flower of France, there was none durst abide at home without he would be shamed for ever.
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Whoops, my bad, I forgot to thank him for his dedication and extraordinary rendition of "nobless obige" ...
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