| 词汇 | example_english_nobility |
| 释义 | Examples of nobilityThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The government, nervous about the nobility's reaction to the agreement, issued an order banning tournaments. Accordingly, they did all they could to protect the nobility's privileged position. The nobility's landholdings remained formidable, and the dominant ethos among both officers and senior officials was still overwhelmingly sympathetic to noble privilege. At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner's burlesque of the secular. They planned to convert the counties, the safeguards of the nobility's prerogatives, into forums of popular representation uniting the nobles, the middle classes and the peasantry. The narrowness of the definition gave the nobility some security against the construction of political offences as treason. In this matter the lower nobility had a crucial role to play. Should a wayward tsar stray too far from the path approved by the nobility, he could be replaced. Should the nobility refuse to cooperate, the monarchy would be left high and dry and the monarch himself would be unlikely to survive. By rejecting reform, on the other hand, he won the enthusiastic support of the great majority of the nobility. On the other hand, where it suited the nobility to retain ownership they could, until 1881, refuse to embark upon redemption at all. Dependence on the nobility was not the only constraint upon the" absolute monarchy". Further, and more important, it was open to doubt whether the nobility was properly trained for war. The nobility and the serfs emerged, then, as two of the distinct strata in feudal society. The grand dukes appear to have established networks of kindred with the nobility in these important frontier zones. The nobility possessed large estates which formed an important source of employment. The heroic sacrice of the missionary spirit, in the face of this seemingly intractable reality, was true nobility. Like involvement in commerce and banking, this political modification of the traditional aristocratic role in society further accentuated divisions within the nobility. In the interim the state had failed to transform its nobility into a ruling class that met its requirements. However, the only restraint most councils succeeded in imposing was a statute demanding of new members proof of their nobility and limpieza, or 'pure blood'. Two sun patterns are normally embroidered on the breast area of the nobilities dresses which is seen as a sign of the aristocrats. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Hank accepts, and spends the next few years building up 19th-century infrastructure behind the nobility's back. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Despite the presence of a few local notables among the rebel leaders, the provincial nobility did not openly support the revolt against the crown. The authors reveal the powerful capacity of elements in the old bureaucracy and nobility to obstruct policies that the king regarded as essential and urgent. A deep gap existed between the nobility and the bourgeoisie. At the top were the nobility, clergy, and (after 1775) merchantry. We must remember that masque performances were great occasions, replete with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery. Like the emperor and his nobility in general, this class also cherished the universal human values and visions. The king drew the vast majority, more than 80 per cent, of these officers from the nobility. In other words, the kuge (court nobility), warrior and farmer classes should be reviewed separately and comparatively. In the past it was followed by the emperor and the nobility, by the rich and by intellectuals such as the literati. Here again the house was refined to express his patron's nobility. There is hardly a single member of the sixteenth-century nobility who does not appear. The same sources tell us that this game caught on pretty quickly and soon became a favourite pastime of the nobility and royalty. The sounds that emanate from the orchestra pit ... contrast the ideal nobility ... with the bitter reality on stage. The master-servant divide allegedly widened over the course of the eighteenth century, trickling down from the nobility to the middling sorts. In the main cities, the protagonists were not only members of the high nobility, but ennobled wealthy citizens as well. Nobility, or the titled aristocracy, is the paramount example. The nobilities' power and rights were extended and their responsibilities lessened. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They did not, however, develop with any great strength among either the high-born nobility or the low-born commons. Several developments in the last quarter of the eighteenth century reduced the vast gulf between the more opulent ones and the nobility. The process of state-making to which these nobles owed their prosperity and prestige exposed the nobility to intensified pressures. Studies of the rural ruling class have concentrated on the nobility and greater gentry, those with estates of three thousand acres and above. The local nobility was the most wealthy and powerful rank. The consortium adhered to tradition : political rights remained attached to nobility, regardless of origin. Attempts of the royalists to safeguard the monarchy from despotism by restoring a territorial nobility were inspired by an obsolete political model. Of particular importance to this investigation is the question of the role of the elite and nobility in craft production. Local nobility were given greater access to this general language, and thus were likely more able to maintain their positions of privilege. Commoners usually only have one-word names, while nobilities use two-or-more-word names, but rarely a surname. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Previously, the 'nation' had been thought of as comprising exclusively the male nobility. The decisions of the riksdag to endorse or initiate the extension of royal authority, at the expense of the high nobility, had been triumphantly vindicated. Elements of the nobility who identified with that state sought to keep the idea of state restoration alive. Conversely, was plunder the only motivator for the urban "nobility" of the oases towns and tribes of the peninsula? Finally, saleable letters of patent called into question the very foundations of the noble class; if nobility could be purchased, what makes one noble? As she had lived in habits of familiarity with the first nobility, she conceived the idea of rendering their patronage subservient to her scheme. They rendered the existence of a nobility superf luous and thus were stigmatized as tyrannical. They seem to have been patronized primarily by men from the nobility, wealthy burghers and 'non-nobles of high standing'. On the contrary, the oligarchy had hoisted itself up into the ranks of titled nobility. The nobility's privilege was abolished and a career as an officer was opened up to the bourgeois. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their method was co-operation between parallel constitutions of royals, nobilities and laymen. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The nobility's opposition to this also led to several privileges being saved from abolition. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The abbeys were not reserved for the clergy, they were distributed among the nobility, to women and even to children as additional sources of income. The nobility too was dependent of the king. A disproportionate percentage of indigenous testaments represent the established nobility and the well-off, as might be expected. Textures gradually thawed, fleshed out over highly flexible bass lines, paving the way for an eloquent theme of unhurried nobility in hymn-like block harmonies. The nobility grew accustomed to regarding the church estates as their sources of income and the church as a career, especially for younger sons. Nobility's marriages became restricted: generally, only a noblewoman was eligible for valid marriage of a nobleman in order to transmit the noble status to children. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The nobility's and rulers' incomes were often not enough to pay their mercenaries or their own army. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They were in charge of assembling local nobility's military forces in the event of a "pospolite ruszenie" ("leve en masse"). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In this view, their nudity is the hallmark of their nobility; they should be protected. All three of these structures were ceremonial in nature and likely housed the remains of nobility or elite individuals. The nobility were exempt but could be made to swear the oath if asked by six members of the privy council. The second part of the book is devoted to two studies of nobility which are subjected to a single critique. Indeed, upholding the dignity of the nobility was one of his favourite themes. Non-clergy became increasingly literate, and urban populations began to imitate the nobility's interest in chivalry. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, this oxymoronic image of poverty and nobility calls for a supplement to hold its integrity. 85 duellists in the period 1660 to 1724, the vast majority of duellists remained from the nobility, gentry, and military. A large proportion, though, came from the ranks of the nobility (including the close relatives of peers). While only one eighth of the deputies belonged to the nobility of the robe, fourfifths had been or were still military officers. When the nobility acknowledges ... subservience, the princes should make use of noble virtue, and not always of strictness by trusting in force. A destabilized social hierarchy not only raised traumatic questions about the nature of nobility, but also about that primus inter pares, the king himself. The feudal aristocracy had been transformed into a court nobility. The children of non-nobles, with the exception of the sons of clerics, displayed a much lower level of literacy and general culture than the nobility. As such, he concludes, competitive gambling offered one way by which the city's nobility reconciled their commercial heritage and their military culture. The administration was decentralised and the nobility's power reduced. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The nobility's importance in warfare also eroded as medieval heavy cavalry lost its central role in battle. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Study of the nobility and gentry, of law, of the church and popular religion, and of culture and society, all receive full and expert attention. However, this cannot have been a realistic option for tenant farmers on the land of the nobility. Once only reserved for the nobility this liberty is now our sacred right. In the first tier, one could find some of the very rich inhabitants, the so-called mercanti di campagna, the 'elegant youth', but also selected nobility. Precisely because it made access to the state so desirable, it exacerbated rivalries within the nobility. Princely state formation and the formation of a power elite within the nobility thus went hand in hand. The political opposition centered around three groups which were indispensable to the state in fulfilling his vision: the nobility, the clergy, and the scientific establishment. Preoccupied with external expansion rather than internal development, it had restricted the nobility to a more limited function as a military servitor class. The debate, however, was not whether the statute should be abrogated or ignored, but how nobility itself should be understood in a society undergoing change. As for the social make-up of this oligarchy, traditional wisdom notwithstanding, statutes of nobility and patrimonial of®ces did not lead to hermetic closure. In other words, the statute was the collective patent of nobility of the municipal elite. The nobility's condescending attitude toward the commoners is still maintained today for reasons of family prestige. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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