{ No‐bless″, No‐blesse″ } (?; 277), n. [F. noblesse. See Noble.] 1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. Chaucer.Spenser.B. Jonson.
2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. Dryden.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.