Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make noble; ennoble; dignify; exalt.
- Ennobled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make noble; to ennoble; to exalt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To make
noble ; toennoble ; toexalt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Coluccio Salutati, De nobilitate legum et medicinae.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, édition critique d'après le texte d'Anvers
Loss of Faith 2009
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De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus declamatio/
Loss of Faith 2009
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[3641] Disputare de nobilitate generis, sine divitiis, est disputare de nobilitate stercoris, saith Nevisanus the lawyer, to dispute of gentry without wealth, is (saving your reverence) to discuss the original of a merd.
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Alii pro pecunia emunt nobilitatem, alii illam lenocinio, alii veneficiis, alii parricidiis; multis perditio nobilitate conciliat, plerique adulatione, detractione, calumniis, &c.
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You detail the history of the word "snob" — explaining that it arose from aristocratic students at Oxford and Cambridge writing "sine nobilitate" (without nobility) or "s. nob" next to the names of ordinary students on testing lists.
The Status-tician 2004
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You detail the history of the word "snob" — explaining that it arose from aristocratic students at Oxford and Cambridge writing "sine nobilitate" (without nobility) or "s. nob" next to the names of ordinary students on testing lists.
The Status-tician 2004
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Proposui retrahere calamum à describenda nobilitate, gubernatione et ministrantium frequentia, atque Imperatoris magnificentia: attamen quia coepi ego, propter incredulos, et nescios, ac inerudibiles, non dimittam in toto.
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Ista àbsque vlla Domini cura per ministros quotidiè reparantur etiam in maiori satis quam effor nobilitate, nisi dum ipse pro placito iusserit, quandoque temperari.
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Vtque breuitèr transeam de multa huius palatij nobilitate, mirabile hoc solummodò praemissis super addo.
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