nobility
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This is the essential definition of nobility, expanded upon over 178 episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
There, the only individual not paralyzed by nobility is Peggy’s snobbish mother-in-law-to-be, played by a delicious Phylicia Rashad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He lives by a warrior code that defines nobility by bravery and sacrifice in action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
I mean the bit about relying on the collective nobility of our compatriots.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
It occurred to me that an ugly, used lute might not sell very well in a city full of nobility and prosperous musicians.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2015
As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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His letters to himself, written as from his wife, to cover her shame and desertion, present a spectacle so magnanimous and pathetic as to upbraid us that we had never learned nobilities so sublime.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
It had been a hard moment for her, but he sprang high among the nobilities of her heart, and was sustained....
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
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