Synonyms for nobly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : noh-blee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnoʊ bli

Définition of nobly

Origin : c.1300, "valorous, courageous, spirited," from noble (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "of or befitting noble birth or descent, of high ancestry" is from 1590s.

adv majestically
adv honorably

Example sentences :

Yet Hope had appealed to him so simply, had trusted him so nobly!
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Nobly have you done, my dear son," he cried, with warm emotion.
Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts

How nobly he had done his part; good, dear old despised, misjudged Lauzanne.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Then came a fine troop all in red, nobly and splendidly clad.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

My poor child has drawn a sad lot, and nobly is she bearing it.
Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various

Ghosts have about them, “and not so nobly or wisely as might be.”
Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells

Take courage, then, and nobly say what you think that knowledge is.
Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato

For the rest, he had lavished Justin nobly for his mother's sake.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

And they who deal with one another as they ought, deal well and nobly—is it not so?
Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon

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