| 词汇 | nobility |
| 释义 | nobility noun uk /nəʊˈbɪl.ə.ti//nəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /noʊˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/ nobilitynoun (MORAL)[ U ] honesty, courage, and kindness: 高尚，伟大，崇高 nobility of spirit/purpose精神／目标的崇高 Virtue and moral good altruism angel angelic angelically be as pure as the driven snowidiom justifiable justifiably justified loftiness lofty rightness saintly self-forgetful self-forgetfully the road to hell is paved with good intentionsidiom upstanding virtuous virtuously white hat wholesomely You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Beauty and attractiveness nobilitynoun (HIGH RANK)the nobility[ S, + sing/pl verb ] the people of the highest social rank in a society, considered as a group: （总称）贵族 members of the nobility贵族成员 Royalty, aristocracy & titles accede to something accession anointed anti-monarchical anti-monarchist duke dukedom earl earldom emir miss mister monarch monarchist morganatic royally Rt. Hon. Shah sheikh sire nobility | American Dictionarynobility noun[ U ] us/noʊˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/ the class or group of people who have a high social rank, esp. from birth Examples of nobilitynobility 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. See all examples of nobility 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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