Definition of Nobility

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Nobility

The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

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.

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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Nobility Quotations

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini

Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel De Cervantes

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nobility Translations

nobility in Danish is adel
nobility in Dutch is adel, edelen
nobility in French is noblesse
nobility in German is Adel {m}, Adelsstand {m}
nobility in Spanish is nobleza
nobility in Swedish is adel

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