Meaning of NOBILITY
| Pronunciation: | | now'bilitee
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | aristocracy, grandeur, magnanimousness, noblesse |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | |  Nobility
Clay Cole is on the run for a crime he didn`t commit. But it`s getting harder to run when it seems like everywhere he goes people have heard of the man known as the Rainmaker. When a young boy saves Clay`s life, Clay figures the only honorable thing to do is help the boy`s mother in the vicious land battle she`s part of--even if that means staying put for a while. But if he stops running long enough for the past to catch up to him, the Rainmaker may not have much of a future. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are associated with nobility means that you prefer show, pleasure and status as opposed to the cultivation of the mind. |
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