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nobility

[noh-bil-i-tee] / noʊˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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It gives them, he says, “the grace and nobility that they deserve.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

There, the only individual not paralyzed by nobility is Peggy’s snobbish mother-in-law-to-be, played by a delicious Phylicia Rashad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The film seems to suggest that we — the audience to this specious display of white-knighting nobility — are monsters who can act just as heinous as the criminals.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Even back in 13th century Imperial China, the lengthy talons grown by nobility and the delicately carved brass nail shields which usually guarded them were a symbol of a life unmarred by manual labour.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

She shrugged again, a silent comment about the inexplicable desires of the nobility.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

I doubt if their nobilities would take much interest in a scientific experiment were there no profit at the end of it.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr


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