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Nobility

Nobility Meaning & Definition
Nobility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nobility?

[n] the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
[n] a privileged class holding hereditary titles
[n] the state of being of noble birth

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nobility: aristocracy | grandeur | magnanimousness | noblesse

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nobility: aedileship | ancienne noblesse | archbishopric | archiepiscopacy | archiepiscopate | aristocracy | assured probity | augustness | authority | Babylonian splendor | baronage | baronetage | barons | bigheartedness | bigness | birth | bishopric | blamelessness | blue blood | brilliance | chairmanship | chancellery | chancellorate | chancellorship | character | chiefery | chiefry | chieftaincy | chieftainry | chieftainship | chivalrousness | chivalry | class | cleanness | consequence | conspicuousness | consulate | consulship | courtliness | cream | deanery | decency | dictatorship | dictature | dignifiedness | dignity | directorship | distinction | elaborateness | elect | elegance | elevation | elite | eminence | emirate | episcopacy | erectness | errantry | establishment | estimableness | ethics | exaltation | excellence | fairness | fame | FFVs | generosity | generousness | glory | good character | goodness | gorgeousness | governorship | grandeur | grandiosity | grandness | gravity | great heart | greatheartedness | greatness | greatness of heart | haut monde | headship | hegemony | heroism | hierarchy | high ideals | high life | high mightiness | high principles | high society | high-mindedness | honesty | honor | honorableness | idealism | illustriousness | immaculacy | importance | imposingness | impressiveness | influence | integrity | irreproachability | irreproachableness | justice | justness | kingliness | knightage | knight-errantry | knightliness | largeheartedness | lavishness | leadership | liberality | liberalness | loftiness | lordliness | lords of creation | lordship | luxuriousness | luxury | magistracy | magistrateship | magistrature | magnanimity | magnanimousness | magnificence | majesty | mark | masterdom | mastership | mastery | mayoralty | mayorship | metropolitanate | metropolitanship | moral excellence | moral strength | noble-mindedness | nobleness | noblesse | noblesse de robe | notability | note | old nobility | openhandedness | outstandingness | overlapping | papacy | pashadom | pashalic | patriarchate | patriarchy | peerage | plushness | pontificality | pontificate | popedom | popehood | popeship | poshness | position | power elite | power structure | prefectship | prefecture | premiership | presidency | presidentship | prestige | pride of bearing | pride of place | primacy | prime-ministership | prime-ministry | princedom | princeliness | princeship | principality | principles | probity | proconsulate | proconsulship | prominence | protectorate | protectorship | proud bearing | proudness | provostry | provostship | pureness | purity | rank | rectitude | rectorate | rectorship | regality | regency | regentship | renown | reputability | respectability | resplendence | righteousness | ritziness | royalty | ruling circles | ruling class | sedateness | seigniory | seneschalship | seneschalsy | sheikhdom | sheriffalty | sheriffcy | sheriffdom | shrievalty | significance | sobriety | solemnity | splendidness | splendiferousness | splendor | stainlessness | state | stateliness | sublimity | sumptuousness | supereminence | supervisorship | suzerainship | suzerainty | the best | the best people | the brass | the classes | the Establishment | the Four Hundred | top people | tribunate | unimpeachability | unimpeachableness | unspottedness | upper class | upper classes | upper crust | upper ten | upper ten thousand | uppercut | uprightness | upstandingness | venerability | virtue | virtuousness | vizierate | viziership | worthiness

See Also | aristocrat | baronage | blue blood | elite | Ferdinand and Isabella | high-mindedness | honorableness | honourableness | idealism | knighthood | lords temporal | noble-mindedness | noblesse | patrician | peerage | position | purple | samurai | second estate | status | sublimity | the sublime | William and Mary

Nobility In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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