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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English noblesse, from Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
noblesse (usually uncountable, plural noblesses)
- The quality of being noble; nobleness.
- c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, The Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms:
- I yow took/ out of youre pouere array / And putte yow / in estaat of heigh noblesse.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
- his moder had discouerd in her pryde / how she had wroughte that by enchauntement / soo that he shold neuer be hole vntyl the best knyghte of the world had serched his woundes / […] / And yf I fayle to hele hym here in this land I wylle neuer take more payne vpon me / and that is pyte for he was a good knyghte and of grete noblenes
- 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams
- But thou , whose noblesse keeps one stature still
- c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, The Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms:
- The nobility; peerage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.8:
- Faire braunch of noblesse, flowre of cheualrie, / That with your worth the world amazed make, / How shall I quite the paines, ye suffer for my sake?
- 1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 1064438096, (please specify the stanza number):
- All gentlemen are almost obliged to it: and I know no reason we should give that advantage to the commonalty of England to be foremost in brave actions, which the noblesse of France would never suffer in their peasants
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.8:
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French, see noble + -esse
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
noblesse f (plural noblesses)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “noblesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Noun[edit]
noblesse (uncountable)
- noblesse
- 1470–1483 (date produced), [Thomas Malory], [Le Morte Darthur] (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 35, recto, lines 30–32:
- That is to me ſeyde kyng lodegreaūs the beſte tydyngꝭ that eu[er] I herde · that ſo worthy a kyng of proveſſe ⁊ nobleſſe wol wedde my dought[er] ·
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Descendants[edit]
- English: noblesse
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