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nobilityno‧bil‧i‧ty /nəʊˈbɪləti, nə- $ noʊ-, nə-/ noun   - Most of the pictures celebrate the nobility of working with one's hands.
- A growing proportion of the nobility lost their ties with the land altogether.
- But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
- It also explains why the Tsar was able to secure the acquiescence of the nobility.
- Le Philosophe sans le savoir is also a satire on the pride and depravity of the nobility.
- The 22.8 million serfs privately owned by members of the nobility were emancipated.
- The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art.
ADJECTIVE► landed· The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.· For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.· The landed nobility showed no inclination to build bridges with urban property-owners, let alone workers and peasants.· Elections to the zemstvos, too, demonstrated the intense hostility of the peasantry towards the landed nobility.· It was, by its very nature, committed first and foremost to the interests of the landed nobility.· All the efforts of the Ministry of Education could not produce a sufficient flow of educated recruits from the landed nobility.· The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility. ► the nobility► landed gentry/family/nobility- But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
- For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
- It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
- Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.
- The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.
- The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
- The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.
- The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
1the nobility the group of people in some countries who belong to the highest social class and have titles such as ‘Duke’ or ‘Countess’ SYN the aristocracy2[uncountable] the quality of being noble:  the nobility of his intentions |