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nobleness

[ UK /nˈə‍ʊbə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

How To Use nobleness In A Sentence

  • I. 24), when a friend of signal nobleness and purity is suddenly struck down -- "_Ergo Quinctilium perpetuus sopor urget_? Horace
  • The nobleness of one whose head was covered by that royal basnet; the fearlessness of one whose brows were consciously shaded by it. The Old Helmet
  • Honesty is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 
  • Honesty is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 
  • What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within outward, out of the necessities and character of the indweller, who is the only builder — out of some unconscious truthfulness, and nobleness, without ever a thought for the appearance and whatever additional beauty of this kind is destined to be produced will be preceded by Walden
  • a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque _flunkyism_ grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures? Latter-Day Pamphlets
  • I hold it ever virtue and cunning were endowments greater than nobleness and riches.
  • The slim bottle and clear perfume resemble a modern woman of classic elegance and nobleness.
  • Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Walden, or Life in the woods
  • Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
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