Definition of nobility

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Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..

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Ragman''s Roll :: Ragman's roll () The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296..
Commonalty :: Commonalty (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..
Gentilesse :: Gentilesse (a.) Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.
Murza :: Murza (n.) One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class..
Ennoble :: Ennoble (v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner..
Amir :: Amir (n.) One of the Mohammedan nobility of Afghanistan and Scinde.
States-general :: States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty..
Graf :: Graf (n.) A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl..
Noblesse :: Noblesse (n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females..
Noble :: Noble (superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage..
Peer :: Peer (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm..
Nobleman :: Nobleman (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent..
Countess :: Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count..
Patrician :: Patrician (n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility..
Gentrie :: Gentrie (n.) Nobility of birth or of character; gentility.
Nobility :: Nobility (n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility..
Commoner :: Commoner (n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people..
Nobley :: Nobley (n.) The body of nobles; the nobility.
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