nobility (n.)
- archbishopric
- aristocracy
- authority
- baronage
- baronetage
- bigheartedness
- bigness
- birth
- bishopric
- blamelessness
- brilliance
- chairmanship
- chancellery
- chancellorship
- character
- chieftaincy
- chieftainship
- chivalry
- class
- cleanness
- consequence
- conspicuousness
- consulate
- consulship
- courtliness
- cream
- deanery
- decency
- dictatorship
- dignity
- directorship
- distinction
- elaborateness
- elect
- elegance
- elevation
- elite
- eminence
- emirate
- episcopacy
- erectness
- errantry
- establishment
- ethics
- exaltation
- excellence
- fairness
- fame
- generosity
- generousness
- glory
- goodness
- governorship
- grandeur
- grandiosity
- grandness
- gravity
- greatness
- headship
- hegemony
- heroism
- hierarchy
- high-mindedness
- honesty
- honor
- honorableness
- idealism
- illustriousness
- importance
- impressiveness
- influence
- integrity
- justice
- justness
- knightliness
- lavishness
- leadership
- liberality
- liberalness
- loftiness
- lordliness
- lordship
- luxuriousness
- luxury
- magistracy
- magistrature
- magnanimity
- magnanimousness
- magnificence
- majesty
- mark
- mastership
- mastery
- mayoralty
- noble-mindedness
- nobleness
- noblesse
- notability
- note
- openhandedness
- overlapping
- papacy
- patriarchate
- patriarchy
- peerage
- pontificate
- position
- prefecture
- premiership
- presidency
- presidentship
- prestige
- primacy
- princedom
- principality
- principles
- probity
- proconsulate
- proconsulship
- prominence
- protectorate
- protectorship
- pureness
- purity
- rank
- rectitude
- rectorate
- rectorship
- regency
- renown
- reputability
- respectability
- resplendence
- righteousness
- royalty
- sedateness
- seigniory
- sheikhdom
- significance
- sobriety
- solemnity
- splendor
- state
- stateliness
- sublimity
- sumptuousness
- suzerainty
- uppercut
- uprightness
- venerability
- virtue
- virtuousness
- viziership
- worthiness
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called the untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Nobility is the one only virtue.
To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."
If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent,—a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
