How To Use Nobility In A Sentence

Virtue is the only true nobility.
Both François Massialot, in Le Cuisinier roïal et bourgeois, and Menon, in Le Cuisinière bourgeoise, speak of the bourgeois kitchen as simple in style and limited in possibilities, but where special occasions required special efforts, indicating that for them the term designated a style of life and social position beneath that of the nobility. Savoring The Past
Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
As a member of the nobility, he had certain rights and responsibilities: he could raise troops and command them in the field, he held his own courts of justice, he could coined his own money.
The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility.

These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
Music of the highest nobility crawled forth like toothpaste squeezed from an unending tube. Times, Sunday Times
It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘margrave’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
But the English nobility keep themselves to themselves and only dine with the pick of the bunch.
In 1808 the imperial nobility was completed with the ranks of count, baron, and chevalier, all of them hereditary.
The play satirized the nobility and made a commoner - a haircutter, no less - the protagonist.
In the Czech Republic, the old nobility is enjoying a new lease of life.
Men are better judges of that than women; but for high, chivalrous spirit, for true principle and nobility, and what I call downright worth, I don't think you will easily find her superior. The Eustace Diamonds
Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
One excellent way to forget it is to focus with righteous rectitude on the evils of others while focusing on the nobility of oneself.
Crowns and tiaras adorned the heads of nobility, earrings and nose studs enhanced the natural beauty of the face, necklaces and pendants highlighted a graceful neck, and brooches and fasteners held drapes and garments in place.
And even like thanks be given unto our nobility, gentlemen, and others, for their continual nutriture and cherishing of such homeborne and foreign simples in their gardens: for hereby they shall not only be had at hand and preserved, but also their forms made more familiar to be discerned and their forces better known than hitherto they have been. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Mark Liberman of Language Log has a very suggestive entry about the disfluency of the Wolof elite, as described in Judith Irvine's "Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change" (Language in Society, 7: 37-64 (1978)), at least as he remembers it:...upwardly mobile men among the Wolof nobility cultivate inarticulateness as a sign of status. Languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.
The martlet signifies nobility acquired through bravery, prowess or intelligence. On English arms it was a mark of cadency signifying the fourth son, for whom there was little doubt that there would be no land left for him to inherit.
Most Great Danes, the second tallest of all the dog breeds, carried an air of dignity and nobility.
So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
No claque of paid liars can cheapen the sacrifice and nobility of the cause.
Lacotte's jury found Pingping Ji remarkable for her style and her air of nobility, elements that distinguished this year's classical competition.
There is no nobility in codependency with a maniac. Calitics - Front Page
Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility.
Light pours down at the ceremonial end from an unseen clerestory set into the roof where it steps up to offer nobility.
There is no connection between the phrase and the actual blood color of nobility; however, in the ancient and medieval societies of Europe, much of the upper class may have had superficial veins that appeared blue through their untanned skin, in contrast with the working class of the time, mainly agricultural peasants who spent most of their time working outdoors and thus had tanned skin. A terribly painful conversation.
A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The stories of these ordinary men, what he called the nobility of ordinary people, always moved him so very much. A War Reporter’s Last Great Dispatch
But viewed from another perspective, the Swedes have written a new chapter in ignobility, presenting the world's top literary honor to an author who considers his own work irrelevant.
He represents nobility, order, German doctrinarianism and pathetic and wearisome declamation. Komediantka. English
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
But they wanted to be recognized for their nobility of character.
a kind of Chapter, to enter which it was necessary to give proof of four degrees of nobility The system of "commendam" proved injurious to the religious life of the abbey. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility.
In 1789 half of the cahiers of the nobility demanded the end to ennoblement through venal offices.
Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar. THE BROKEN GOD
The parade was crowded with nobility and gentry, and I had to pull past them in this ridiculous fashion. Three Men in a Boat
Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.
Gloria Sáez's attractive costumes for the solo singers were designed to flatter the figure, with flowing velvet for the nobility and homespun for the commoners.
The entire topography rolls up to peaks of almost supernatural nobility. Times, Sunday Times
Unstoppable overspill of abundant fruits and berries, stitched chain of natural hues, fabricant, barbarous, unhooked and lost nobility of the ‘real thing’ rhapsode -
I have again discoursed, and mingled my soul, with friends whose nobility of spirit honored the illustrious stems from which they sprang; but, like the blossomed bough torn from its branch, they are gone, and spread fragrance in my path no more. The Scottish Chiefs
Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
An is the nobility marquis to inherit a person, laying claim to kindness to fellowmen.
Historically, public service was the honourable vocation of the nobility and gentry, whose younger sons went into the army, the Church or the law.
Though the civil service was dominated by the nobility, it became progressively more open to commoners.
Only the nobility were allowed to take part in jousting tournaments though Henry VIII had to retire from the sport as he was seriously injured in a jousting tournament in 1536.
The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum. Times, Sunday Times
However, the monarchy was not absolute, but relied on the support of a powerful and divided nobility.
His clarity of projection, firmness of line, richness of tone and nobility of presence all bespeak rare artistry.
Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful case of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Historic nobility and royalty mostly understood the concept of noblesse obligee and ruling with the consent of the governed. Obama: Even Palin Denounced McCain's Robo-Slime
The title of censor was esteemed more honorable than that of consul, although attended by less power: no one could be elected a second time, and they who filled it were remarkable for leading an irreproachable life; so that it was considered the chief ornament of nobility to be sprung from a censorian family. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Knowl, so called in this county, but he had many other places, was of a very ancient lineage, who had refused a baronetage often, and it was said even a viscounty, being of a proud and defiant spirit, and thinking themselves higher in station and purer of blood than two-thirds of the nobility into whose ranks it was said, they had been invited to enter. Uncle Silas
[23] The _hermandad_ of Castile had never been countenanced by legislative sanction; it was chiefly resorted to as a measure of police, and was directed more frequently against the disorders of the nobility, than of the sovereign; it was organized with difficulty, and, compared with the union of Aragon, was cumbrous and languid in its operations. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
I don't think Erica is programmed to understand nobility of character.
The cornflower blue of her gown heightened her beauty, the simple line making her feel as if she could be nobility.
As a result, many gentry and nobility families abandoned their country houses for large parts of the autumn and winter. The Times Literary Supplement
Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar. THE BROKEN GOD
If a landowning nobility was to prosper, it was well advised to diversify out of land and reap some of the gain of financial, commercial, and industrial growth.
And the keep and the town are full of Outislander folk and nobility from the other duchies for the Prince's betrothal. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
If you were a member of the nobility, finely sieved wheat would be used in making white manchet loaves.
Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
They married into the nobility and entered the highest ranks of state administration.
The great families of England were built on this principle of primogeniture of sons and their properties were not dissipated as the properties of European nobility were.
But the nobility, though not always noble, are always depicted as elegant and glamorous. Times, Sunday Times
The closest thing to nobility found in our ranks is the bastard son of a petty knight (the captain).
From the milieu of the nobility itself there arise preachers of conciliation.
Her book opens with a discussion of the changing understanding of the notion of nobility, and the ways in which the aspirations of the Venetian patriciate towards nobility developed during the course of the renaissance.
The survival of the old elites extended to the gentry and petty nobility.
Despite his sometimes shabby behavior, he has nobility of spirit compared to the bigger-budget showbiz types who are his rivals.
Other, less prestigious ennobling offices required two generations to serve in office before conferring transmissible nobility.
Usually granted in connection with wardships, the king's rights over the marriage of his tenants-in-chief had longer term implications for Edward III's ‘new nobility.’
His virtues, as well as the vices of Elagabalus, contracted a tincture of weakness and effeminacy from the soft climate of Syria, of which he was a native; though he blushed at his foreign origin, and listened with a vain complacency to the flattering genealogists, who derived his race from the ancient stock of Roman nobility. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In Norman England, the greyhound was a symbol of nobility.
Nevertheless their Bible was widely circulated not only among the middle classes but among the nobility.
If he had not the sterner nobility of purpose which made the first of his name conceive and partially carry into effect the ideal reign of justice which was the first want of his kingdom, he had yet a noble ambition for Scotland to make her honoured and feared and famous, and the success with which he seems to have carried out this object of his life for many years was great. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
'In Japan there is what we call the nobility of failure. The Ninja
Inversely, lack of assets and failure to ‘live nobly’ could in certain circumstances lead to derogation or loss of nobility.
Instead, they were answerable to a complex of hereditary or franchise jurisdictions in the hands of the feudal nobility.
In medieval Veliko Turnovo, royalty and high nobility lived in relative safety behind the massive ramparts of Tsarevets Hill.
All this drew the nobility and gentry to the city.
The nobility, integrity, and visionary qualities of the man are reflected in his music.
Surely only the most chivalrous knight would stand forth boldly, without armor, without the element of surprise, trusting only in his virtue and nobility to protect him!
With many generations to come, the name of César de St. Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maîtres, whose leader the Prince de Condé was destined to become a few years later. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
Only the nobility participated in warfare, using the symbol of medieval chivalry, the chariot.
The pomps of the religion, the pageantries of the court, and the munificence of the nobility, were never before characterised by so much grandeur and profusion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
We ascribe them a certain nobility and "work ethic", and conversely we dislike scavengers. Notes from the field: Vultures in the neighborhood
Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
What Sayre admired was not some vague nobility that she found among the London exiles, but their unshrinking and ongoing commitment to radical goals.
He belongs to the nobility and wears their cloak and manners. The Times Literary Supplement
What he lacks in physical stature, he makes up in musical nobility. Times, Sunday Times
The son of northern French nobility, and a former cleric and Cluniac monk, he became pope in 1088, at a time when the papacy, reeling from a rancorous and protracted power struggle with the emperor of Germany, stood on the brink of overthrow. 'The Crusades'
She was admired for that nobility of spirit, it seems.
The Croats were defeated and left the flower of their nobility on the field.
This is one of the most highly regarded charges among royalty and those of nobility.
What wasn't publicized was the ignobility of young Merritt's poverty. A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
Music of the highest nobility crawled forth like toothpaste squeezed from an unending tube. Times, Sunday Times
The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
All my boyhood and youth I thought of the word nobility and what it meant," he wrote. Rocket to the Moon revived
Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
There is clarity and nobility in just being a journeyer," Agassi decides. Agassi, Sampras, Federer, Nadal: Books On The Great Men Of Tennis
These ballets were often elaborate spectacles, intended to display the status of the nobility or monarchs who had commissioned them.
The explanation follows - the women, thus monumentalized, are eternally atoning for the ignobility of Caryae, a Greek state which allied with the Persians, and shared their defeat.
As a member of the nobility, his life had been one of wealth and privilege.
The French nobility is conscious of its apartness to this day.
Such a limitation requires a strong breed of man, however, with a quality of character and nobility of soul.
Nevertheless their Bible was widely circulated not only among the middle classes but among the nobility.
Such laxness contrasts with, for example, the Bavarian Order of St George, which still demands 16 quarterings of nobility.
The popularity of the stage ballet intensified a vogue for social dancing and for the staging of private divertissements in the homes of the nobility and the bourgeoisie.
Most of the pictures celebrate the nobility of working with one's hands.
While, since thegn and thane are both archaisms, I prefer the former; not only for the same reason that induces Sir Francis Palgrave to prefer it, viz., because it is the more etymologically correct; but because we take from our neighbours the Scotch, not only the word thane, but the sense in which we apply it; and that sense is not the same that we ought to attach to the various and complicated notions of nobility which the Anglo-Saxon comprehended in the title of thegn. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests — an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition — what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all. The Fortunes of Nigel
Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
For the landowning nobility, the portents were not good.
The nobility of woodcutting and its concomitant centrality to British Honduras' mission and existence became associated with the white European side.
In that imaginary reality what drives people to act in one way or another is ideas of honour, chivalry, nobility and heroism.
Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
This pattern in the Islamic movement emphasizes the effectiveness of the traditional network of ulama or sayyids based on their sacredness, nobility of origin, or salvation of the soul.
The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute.
As early as 1439 the nobility had given the king the right to maintain a standing army and to raise the taille which was a tax to pay for the army.
But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
Now, he does appear to show a distaste for the slave morality of mediocre men, and yes, he does seem to think that the qualities of nobility are higher or better than the qualities of other classes.
Hollywood sees a moral dimension in protecting its property and the creative works of its artists, as well as a nobility in bringing entertainment to the masses.
Her long black hair was tied back in a thick braid, and her blue-gray eyes gazed into mine with a mixture of wisdom, kindness, and nobility.
But while England had nobles, it did not have a nobility; legally, the son of a duke or marquis could be only a commoner.
In the dictionary its meaning is given as lofty, elevated by joy, exalted in character; awakening or expressing an uplifting emotion, producing a sense of elevated beauty, nobility, grandeur, solemnity or awe.
By insinuating himself into the French nobility, he systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him.
We MUST educate the young, the vulnerable, the at risk, that military service and war is not a career, nor is it a dignified cause for one's country; it is an ignominious act of ignobility, where the fate that awaits you is death, being maimed, mentally disabled or a murderer. Wexler: A Lone Hero at the Petraeus/Crocker Hearings
The dissolution of the Jesuits also gave impetus to reformers in Charles III's Spain, where secondary schools, such as the Madrid seminary of the nobility, were created to educate the hidalgos.
They were chosen not on account of their nobility and royalism, but because they were certain to vote against the _fou furieux_. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
So the masque was essentially contemporary: when the masquers were unmasked, they proved to be not legendary creatures from classical antiquity, but the King and the nobility, and by inference possibly ourselves.
He would intercede for the man who had cost him his career: he was consumed with tragical nobility. COUP D'ETAT
His speech is more commoner than nobility. Times, Sunday Times
But nothing, absolutely *nothing* about Crowe's character throughout the movie convinced me that he was the person who would, at the very last minute, turn on a dime, shoot down his own gang and then throw himself in jail out of some weird sense of nobility. 3:10 to Yuma
There is a nobility to these characters. Times, Sunday Times
He's a series of contradictory characteristics - valor/cowardice, nobility/cravenness, promiscuity / uxoriousness, selfishness/camaraderie, and every one of them is genuine, as the situation demands.
A numerous nobility causeth poverty, and inconvenience in a state; for it is a surcharge of expense; and besides, it being of necessity, that many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion, between honor and means. The Essays
An equally important matter, surely, is the quality of the questing knight: his nobility, decency, purity of intention and so forth. Times, Sunday Times
Nobility involved a way of life, not the exercise of a profession bound by rules and regulations.
Since then, however, we have learnt that chicness and nobility did not always go together. Times, Sunday Times
This week on the most excellent Pseudopod horror podcast, David Nickle's fantastic story "The Inevitability of Earth," a tale about the ignobility of those who would fly: Boing Boing
To this extent, the novel could be seen as a celebration of the values of the English nobility.
In Mediaeval times the nobility ate their food off great trenchers of bread, which when soaked in gravy and tasty morsels was given to the peasants.
The status of slaves, the political and social requirements of nobility, the draw of the Coliseum, and the cloaked nascence of Christianity are woven into the story seamlessly through the narration of Cecilia. Nina Sankovitch: Feminist of Ancient Rome: Cecilia by Linda Ferri
In Japan the title baron (_Dan_) is the lowest of the five titles of nobility introduced in 1885, on the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The notion of nobility coefficient is suspended whenever Russia is involved. Matthew Yglesias » The Dog That Hasn’t Barked
By the 12th century the nobility began to stage tournaments in which knights engaged each other in battle in order to prove their skill, courage and honor.
The Amida hall, blending the secular with the religious, houses one or more Buddha images within a structure resembling the mansions of the nobility.
But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams. The Prince's Pillows
He has called on any European nobility to contact him by letter enclosing a photograph.
She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.
In his lucid intervals he recurred to his studies, wrote occasional verses, read in French Boileau and in English Cowley, and is called by Wood the best scholar among all the nobility. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
Meanwhile, although artillerists were usually civilian contractors (the art proved too complex for the dilettantes commissioned because of their nobility), that field gradually became a military function.
It depends on a sense of social hierarchy that dignifies a particular group or institution - the church, the nobility, whatever - with a degree of authority.
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
The Russian nobility remained aloof from the business élite, and was held in contempt by the intelligentsia.
Those with titles of nobility, honorific titles, academic titles, and other professional titles prefer to be addressed by those titles, but like people to avoid calling too much attention to a person's position.
Where the Sun shines, truth, nobility and pure-penetrating vitality can be found.
Another legacy of the nobility to filter down to the streets is a fondness for witchcraft and sorcery.
Audrey Hepburn is luminous, waif-like, but with nobility that itself transcended her character's station.
Next he waved mysteriously a few gold coins, then dropped twenty-one drops of cold water out of a jewelled shell, [Footnote: The conch, or chank shell] and finally, muttering something in Sanskrit, and placing in my hand a small silk bag containing a title of nobility and the number and description of the roods of lands pertaining to it, bade me rise, “Chow Khoon Crue Yai”! The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Oh, certainly, but they were persons of great genius, and _genius_ is the highest patent of nobility. Barriers Burned Away
He was for the common people and against the corrupt and corrupting power of the gentry, nobility and royalty.
While that kind of rhythmic systole codifies processional nobility, it is also germane to baroque performance practice, particularly in a chaconne.
From the early years of Edward II's reign until the coup in Nottingham, members of the nobility had usually been forced to take either the side of the crown or the baronial opposition.
He's supposed to be an Istrian -- old Slavonic nobility -- but I have my doubts. "The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 2
Economic and social changes in the early modern period enabled people to rise in social standing by learning proper deportment in the service of the nobility as knights, squires, pages and ladies-in-waiting.
McGuire's long and enjoyable trek through outdoor sports - breaking record after record, collecting award upon award, teaching Debbie Reynolds to fly-cast and fishing Norwegian rivers reserved for the nobility of Europe - is encompassed in an ongoing Wenatchee Valley Museum The Seattle Times
A good king ruled through and with the nobility, whose respect he had to win and maintain.
Throughout the 30-minute, conversational video, apparently the first in a series, Mr. al-Zawahri emphasizes what he calls the "nobility" of bin Laden's character - as well as his own proximity to him. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
But such nobility commonly has unconfessed religious springs, deep and hidden in the man's own heart or in his family history.
But then we got here and I saw how your own brethren in the Order have failed to appreciate your towering nobility.
But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement. A Week To Go
Beyond those four hereditary official classes, its society included a tiny stratum of imperial nobility, a large clerical establishment, and a population of outcastes.
With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests -- an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition -- what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all. The Fortunes of Nigel
But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society?
He had determined to rule England from his court and household, and not through the nobility.
One of the most important documents in our constitutional history is the Magna Carta, a charter of rights extracted by the nobility from King John in 1215.
The nobility, though exempt from taxation, faced problems of its own: many families had been beggared by the wars, and peace left their sons without employment.
Northumberland could proceed with the marriage of his son to Jane Grey, the other Protestant nobility could openly align themselves to Northumberland, the jurists could support Edward's "deuise" and the patent letters confirming the new succession could be issued within the context of Edward's deteriorating condition because it was widely known among the political elite (which did not include the Imperial envoys) that Mary would not challenge the Grey succession. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The germ of his falling-out with his beloved Wagner lay in his growing awareness of Wagner's personal ignobility and malevolence.
His mother came from a noble family but he refused to use a title of nobility in front of his name as requested by his mother.
Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure that the Cinq-Cygnes would not send their chariot, nor the Princess de Cadignan a missive by her maid, except to a person of the highest nobility. The Deputy of Arcis
Human nakedness was given no added nobility, but unworn noble garments did command separate admiration.
The old nobility dominated the officer corps and, since there was no retirement system, gerontocracy prevailed: seniority counted for everything.
It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice.
However, this plan disaccorded with the plans of Protestant and Orthodox nobility.
The sons of the nobility and gentry were counselled to "Consort yourself with gentlemen of your own rank and quality. HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the gentry and nobility and the shire became famous for its landed estates.
It was important that the traditional hierarchy remained intact and that the nobility did not get the impression that they and their old estates were exposed to an attack by the middle class.
He spent most of his life in the service of the English nobility, partly as a music tutor.
In Russia the equation of nobility and service was quite explicit: after 1722 nobility was only acquired by service in the army or bureaucracy.

How To Use Nobility In A Sentence

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