the nobility

noun

: the group of people who are members of the highest social class in some countries

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Marquardt was going to save this woman’s life or die trying, and the nobility in that is chilling. — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 16 May 2026 Then, as now, those financially required to work for a living actually create the wealth, and the nobility hoard and ultimately weaponize it. — Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026 Matthew Arnold, in the 19th century, famously said the qualities of Homer are the plainness, the rapidity, and the nobility. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026 His victim, in her unassailable purity, resists him, thereby proving that the arrivistes populating the ranks of England’s most upwardly mobile class had a moral edge over the nobility. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for the nobility

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