the nobility
noun
: the group of people who are members of the highest social class in some countries
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The fledglings were savored by the nobility and the clergy, who, according to Fritz’s research, passed decrees to keep commoners from killing them, to preserve them for themselves.
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
And so what felt important to me was Owen getting caught up in the nobility of this quest.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
Even in his mid-nineties, Mandela was aloof yet omnipresent: a constant reminder of the nobility of South Africa’s anti-apartheid past and a yardstick that implicitly measured the shortcomings of today’s ANC leaders.
—Ryan Irwin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2013
The terms right-wing and left-wing come from the French Revolution, when the nobility, who sought to preserve the status quo, sat on the right side of the National Assembly, and the revolutionaries, who wanted democratic change, sat on the left.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
And so what felt important to me was Owen getting caught up in the nobility of this quest.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
Even in his mid-nineties, Mandela was aloof yet omnipresent: a constant reminder of the nobility of South Africa’s anti-apartheid past and a yardstick that implicitly measured the shortcomings of today’s ANC leaders.
—Ryan Irwin, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2013
The terms right-wing and left-wing come from the French Revolution, when the nobility, who sought to preserve the status quo, sat on the right side of the National Assembly, and the revolutionaries, who wanted democratic change, sat on the left.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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“The nobility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20nobility. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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