Synonyms:
nobility, aristocracy
Meaning: a privileged class holding hereditary titles
Synonyms:
nobility, nobleness, magnanimousness, grandeur
Meaning: the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
Usage examples
The nobility of good sense.
Of such a nobility, good Lord, deliver us from all envy!
Unless you are a sprig of nobility there is little hope of seeing him at home.
But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain 'a shadow of nobility' by deceiving oneself.
About all this there was a nobility of soul--a dignity of candor--which delighted--which enchanted me--which eternally riveted my chains.
When she was a little girl, a child of her own age, the daughter of one of the nobility, was brought to Kensington Palace to spend the day with her.
These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial--less frequent--in time they ceased altogether.
This garment, like those worn by wealthy Chinese when in native costume, distinguished the rich or the nobility, who were not under the necessity of engaging in manual labor.
He will be so much taken up with the King and the Duke of York, that he is afraid he will Disoblige a great Number of the Nobility by it, besides injuring his own health by such Constant application to business.
And the higher we advance in the nobility of forms, the more we find that the power of the form excels the elementary matter; as the vegetative soul excels the form of the metal, and the sensitive soul excels the vegetative soul.