nobilities

The nobilities were the people who were nobles by birth, priests, and those who earned their rank.

Open Thread for Friday 2006

Our press does not reverence kings, it does not reverence so called nobilities, it does not reverence established ecclesiastical slaveries, it does not reverence laws which rob a younger son to fatten an elder one, it does not reverence any fraud or sham or infamy, howsoever old or rotten or holy, which sets one citizen above his neighbor by accident of birth: it does not reverence any law or custom, howsoever old or decayed or sacred, which shuts against the best man in the land the best place in the land and the divine right to prove property and go up and occupy it.

The American Claimant Mark Twain 1872

I don't think according to my dictionary that an individual can be a "nobilities".

Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility. Ann Althouse 2008

If therefore they shall stand in neede of any thing, we desire you of all humanitie, and for the nobilities which is in you, to ayde and helpe them with such things as they lacke, receiuing againe of them such things as they shall be able to giue you in recompense.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

What am I to say for your kindness in holding a torch of this kind (perfumed for the 'nobilities') between the wind and my poems?

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

What am I to say for your kindness in holding a torch of this kind (perfumed for the 'nobilities') between the wind and my poems?

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

If therefore they shall stand in neede of any thing, we desire you of all humanitie, and for the nobilities which is in you, to ayde and helpe them with such things as they lacke, receiuing againe of them such things as they shall be able to giue you in recompense.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

There are names for both those "nobilities" and neither is pretty.

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: "Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption" Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011

Emperor Ling favored "barbarian" music, clothes, curtains, beds, chairs, and dances. 166 And it was during the Han period that Buddhism, a "barbarian" religion, was adopted by the Chinese, first by nobilities and then by the masses.

Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

Melanie don't you feel a bit awkward interfering these nobilities 'proud march into Islamic slavery?

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009