nobility
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He lives by a warrior code that defines nobility by bravery and sacrifice in action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I mean the bit about relying on the collective nobility of our compatriots.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
But as time has passed, his appearances has been marked by artists and actors wrestling with his godlike nobility and wanting to question his straight-laced nature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is a property developer, descended from Italian nobility, while Eugenie's, Jack Brooksbank, has worked in hospitality and marketing.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2015
As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Thus the hereditary nobilities of Europe have been able to maintain themselves; and a similar process is undoubtedly taking place among the idle rich who occupy an analogous position in the United States.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
Feudalism formed the starting-point also of the later social nobilities of Europe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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