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Definition of Nobility
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

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

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

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

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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