| 单词 | nobly-born |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnobly-born Modifying a participial adjective (frequently hyphenated), as nobly-born, nobly-conceived, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > of birth well-bornOE ethelbornOE athelOE high-bornc1275 noblec1300 great-kinned?c1450 nobly-born1586 ingenious1638 ingenuous1638 gently-born1871 thegn-born1874 hochgeboren1930 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 2 To intreate of the honours, dignities, stemmes, and atchieuments, of certaine personages, nobly discended in England and France. a1596 G. Peele England's Holidays in Wks. (1839) III. 186 Nowell and Needham, gentlemen of name,..Both nobly-minded,..resolved to run in honour of the day. 1608 Dict. National Biogr. at Sylvester, Josuah Mistresse Essex,..eldest daughter of the right valiant and Nobly Descended Sir Walter Harecourt. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 340 A man of noble mind begetteth noblie-minded children. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vii. cxcii. 99 O nobly-privileg'd Poverty. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde V. v. 109 The nobly born, and nobly minded Montgomery. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. i Asking after you With nobly-born impatience. 1851 J. Baillie Dramatic & Poet. Wks. 809 Mary Montgomery! nobly sounding name, and worthy she to bear it. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 242 These two Were the most nobly-manner'd men of all. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 158 Who quickly will destroy Your nobly-peopled city. 1917 R. Bourne in Seven Arts Sept. 545 But this nobly-sounding sense of the futility of art in a world of war may easily infect conscientious minds. 1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary ii. xvi. 227 This nobly-conceived and admirably-written air-epic. 1995 Daily Tel. 16 May 18/1 The nobly-born wives of commoners can display the family trademark in a wholly undifferenced form. < as lemmas |
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