| 单词 | greater nobility |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreater nobility greater nobility n. the members of the higher ranks of the aristocracy, nobility above the rank of baron or its equivalent, esp. in continental Europe. ΚΠ 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Mm1v/1 Garter [King at Arms] is the principall [herald]..whose office is..to marshall the solemnities of the funerals of all the greater nobility, as of Princes, Dukes, Marquises, Earles, Vicounts, and Barons. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 344 Barons with the rest vpward wee call the Greater Nobilitie, the others beneath them the Lesse Nobilitie. 1720 S. Segar Titles of Honour Introd. xii To these Parliaments, so many Barons as would, (understand here all the greater Nobility) after Notice of the King's Purpose, came, and sat with him. 1772 Town & Country Mag. Oct. 595/1 There are seven sorts of esquires... Thirdly, The eldest sons of the youngest sons of barons, and others of the greater nobility. 1890 W. R. Morfill Russia viii. 187 Thus the greater nobility wished to concentrate all the power in their own hands, and the lesser nobility were not willing to agree to this. 1995 S. Clark State & Status vii. 240 As the greater nobility lost its territorial power [in France], it attended court more often than in earlier periods. < as lemmas |
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