(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:27:20

No*bless", No*blesse" [F. noblesse. See Noble.]

1.

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.

[Obs.]

Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson.

2.

The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

Dryden.

 

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