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Meanings of noblesse in English
Synonyms
Examples for "nobility"
Examples for "nobility"
1
The people are indeed the fuel; but the nobility fan the flame.
2
The Senate and the Roman nobility were in the main the same.
3
Enough of nobility in name; I mean to prove nobility in deed.
4
Let the disputing families see that true nobility is expressed in largesse.
5
This in itself shows a lack of nobility in the popular theology.
Usage of noblesse in English
1
But this is only the Brussels of the noblesse and the foreigners.
2
The clergy and noblesse of Languedoc held pretty much the same language.
3
The noblesse lost whatever political influence it had regained during the Restoration.
4
It's noblesse oblige in politics as well as in society, you know.
5
The officers marched more stiffly as though conscious of official noblesse oblige.
6
The noblesse, supreme as a caste, almost divided influence with the Church.
7
Your noblesse did not deserve punishment: but to degrade is to punish.
8
Female emancipation is not quite complete even in America, and noblesse oblige!
9
It was a case of noblesse oblige; their youth constrained them.
10
Will did protect blacks out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
11
It is time I went out of this world, the noblesse is dead.
12
This, however, is not the case with the noblesse of Nice.
13
The records, however, agree that Crevecoeur belonged to the petite noblesse of Normandy.
14
But noblesse oblige: an admiral does not desert his ship or its crew.
15
They were worth any thing short of such a lese noblesse as apostasy.
16
Mostly, they just put up with the blog out of sheer noblesse oblige.
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United Kingdom
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