Antonyms for noblesse

Grammar : Noun

Definition of noblesse

Origin : early 13c., "noble birth or condition," from Old French noblece "noble birth, splendor, magnificence" (Modern French noblesse), from Vulgar Latin *nobilitia, from Latin nobilis (see noble (adj.)). French phrase noblesse oblige "privilege entails responsibility" is attested in English first in 1837.

noun nobility

Example sentences :

Despairing of the noblesse he went among the bourgeoisie with that hope.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It cannot be the destruction of the noblesse, for they are noble.
Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever

The Burman's motto should be Noblesse oblige; he knows the meaning, if he knows not the words.
Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding

He likened the king to the sun and the "noblesse" to the moon.
Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird

But this is only the Brussels of the noblesse and the foreigners.
Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida

James, perhaps least of all the Stuarts, illustrated the principle of noblesse oblige.
Extract from : « Andrew Melville » by William Morison

Noblesse oblige, my dear, and you have proved it so to-night.
Extract from : « The Lady and the Pirate » by Emerson Hough

The negative side of noblesse oblige is more important than the positive.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

Thus the causes of wealth and noblesse are not the same; but opposite.
Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin

Riches—so far from being necessary to noblesse—are adverse to it.
Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin

Synonyms for noblesse

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