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Meaning of nobility in English

nobility
noun
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/nəʊˈbɪl.ə.ti/ /nəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us
/noʊˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/

nobility noun (MORAL)

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honesty, courage, and kindness:
nobility of spirit/purpose
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Virtue and moral good
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nobility noun (HIGH RANK)

the nobility [ S, + sing/pl verb ]
the people of the highest social rank in a society, considered as a group:
members of the nobility
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Royalty, aristocracy & titles
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nobility | American Dictionary

nobility
noun [ U ]
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/noʊˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
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the class or group of people who have a high social rank, esp. from birth
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The government, nervous about the nobility's reaction to the agreement, issued an order banning tournaments.
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Accordingly, they did all they could to protect the nobility's privileged position.
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The nobility's landholdings remained formidable, and the dominant ethos among both officers and senior officials was still overwhelmingly sympathetic to noble privilege.
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At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner's burlesque of the secular.
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They planned to convert the counties, the safeguards of the nobility's prerogatives, into forums of popular representation uniting the nobles, the middle classes and the peasantry.
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The narrowness of the definition gave the nobility some security against the construction of political offences as treason.
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In this matter the lower nobility had a crucial role to play.
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Should a wayward tsar stray too far from the path approved by the nobility, he could be replaced.
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Should the nobility refuse to cooperate, the monarchy would be left high and dry and the monarch himself would be unlikely to survive.
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By rejecting reform, on the other hand, he won the enthusiastic support of the great majority of the nobility.
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On the other hand, where it suited the nobility to retain ownership they could, until 1881, refuse to embark upon redemption at all.
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Dependence on the nobility was not the only constraint upon the" absolute monarchy".
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Further, and more important, it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war.
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The nobility and the serfs emerged, then, as two of the distinct strata in feudal society.
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The grand dukes appear to have established networks of kindred with the nobility in these important frontier zones.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
道德的, 高尚，偉大，崇高, 貴族階層…
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道德的, 高尚，伟大，崇高, 贵族阶层…
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nobleza, nobleza [feminine, singular]…
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気高さ, 気高（けだか）さ…
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asalet, soyluluk, soylular…
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благородство, шляхетність, вельможне панство…
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ความมีศีลธรรม, ความสูงส่ง, ชนชั้นสูง…
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