a. of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
a. having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character
s. inert especially toward oxygen
词态变化
复数形式:nobles
常见例句
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Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. n
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consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men
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a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms
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One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
