nobility

Example Sentences

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“The Forsytes” is inspired by Galsworthy’s family of extremely wealthy stockbrokers in late-Victorian London, an age in which nobility’s influence and social dominance receded with the rise of new money.

From Salon

With “Linaje” — it translates to lineage, a term often associated with nobility and pedigree — the brothers are intent on sharing their hard-earned success with those they love most.

From Los Angeles Times

Known as the Dragon Slayer, he’s often shown meditating, praying, waxing philosophical, and pontificating on nobility, integrity and honor.

From Los Angeles Times

Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” published in 1755, applied the term fashionable to people above the “vulgar” and below “nobility,” a very subjective space.

From The Wall Street Journal

Because Frederick and Bruno were soldiers and something like nobility, they were able to get a carriage with horses from the stables.

From Literature