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Webster 1913 Edition

Noblesse

{

No-bless′

,

No-blesse′

}

(?; 277)

,

Noun.

[F.

noblesse

. See

.]

1.

Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Spenser.

B. Jonson.

2.

The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

Dryden.