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Definition of Nobleness
1. Noun. The quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct.
Generic synonyms: Honorableness, Honourableness
Specialized synonyms: High-mindedness, Idealism, Noble-mindedness, Sublimity
Attributes: Noble, Ignoble
Derivative terms: Magnanimous, Magnanimous, Noble
Definition of Nobleness
1. n. The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.
Definition of Nobleness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being noble; nobility or grandeur ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nobleness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobleness
Literary usage of Nobleness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
""FOR THIS TRUE Nobleness I SEEK IN VAIN" "For this true nobleness I seek in vain,
... BE NOBLE! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
""FOR THIS TRUE Nobleness I SEEK IN VAIN" "For this true nobleness I seek in vain,
... BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men. sleeping, ..."
5. Select Discourses by John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821)
"The nobleness of religion in regard of its properties, &c. of which this is ...
V. The third property or effect discovering the nobleness of religion, riz. ..."
6. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"Then thirdly, nobleness. Homer's manner is Nobleness. noble, whatever the subject
may be, as he is always also simple and unconstrained ; and here the snare ..."
7. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology by George Willis Cooke (1903)
"TRUE Nobleness " FOR this true nobleness I seek in vain, In woman and in man I
find it not ... Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, ..."
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