Noun: noblesse
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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I woll never take more payne uppon me – and that ys grete pite, for he was a good knyght and of grete nobeles. ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
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I yow took/ out of youre pouere array / And putte yow / in estaat of heigh noblesse. [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:]
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That is to me ſeyde kyng lodegreaūs the beſte tydyngꝭ that eu[er] I herde · that ſo worthy a kyng of proveſſe ⁊ nobleſſe wol wedde my dought[er] · [1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 35, recto, lines 30–32:]
Nouns inflected like noblesse
contemplaunce,
giltines,
wordes of tocome,
busihead,
meritote,
aqua vite,
paradys,
Pendragon,
smokynge,
medkniche,
noblesse,
smattrynge,
fidelite,
tolysnysse,
unmanhood,
chierte,
cranage,
cronyng,
tolætenysse,
capcioun, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Verbs referencing "noblesse"
English Nouns
noblesse.
Translations