NOBLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nobleness mean? 

• NOBLENESS (noun)
  The noun NOBLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

  Familiarity information: NOBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

grandeur; magnanimousness; nobility; nobleness

Hypernyms ("nobleness" is a kind of...):

honorableness; honourableness (the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor)

Attribute:

noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)

ignoble (completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nobleness"):

high-mindedness; idealism; noble-mindedness (elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued)

sublimity (nobility in thought or feeling or style)

 Context examples 

But there is nobleness in the name of Edmund.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You've a deal more principle and generosity and nobleness of character than I ever gave you credit for, Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Henry's astonishing generosity and nobleness of conduct, in never alluding in the slightest way to what had passed, was of the greatest assistance to her; and sooner than she could have supposed it possible in the beginning of her distress, her spirits became absolutely comfortable, and capable, as heretofore, of continual improvement by anything he said.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This was cowardly: I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity at first, as I do now—opened to you plainly my life of agony—described to you my hunger and thirst after a higher and worthier existence—shown to you, not my resolution (that word is weak), but my resistless bent to love faithfully and well, where I am faithfully and well loved in return.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)