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nobility

[noh-bil-i-tee] / noʊˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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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

When Elle wants something, she figures out a way to get it and comes by her success honestly and with nobility.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

From Parsi philanthropists and Maharashtrian nobility to mill workers and marginalised migrant settlers, the photographs showcase the city's many faces that stake a claim to the making of Bombay.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

But the graduating classes themselves were the nobility.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

The portraiture of Dumas forms a wonderfully complete list of the royalties and nobilities of France.

From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

There ought to be a gallery in our earth from which men and women might lean and look on nobilities like Sidney Carton.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle




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