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noblest
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Noble \No"ble\, a. [Compar. Nobler ; superl. Noblest .] [F. noble, fr. L. nobilis that can be or is known, well known, famous, highborn, noble, fr. noscere to know. See know .] Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, ...
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a. (en-superlative of: noble)
Usage examples of noblest.
Their son married Tanaquil, who belonged to one of the noblest families in Tarquinii, and himself became a Lucumo or a noble in the state.
Their example was universally imitated by their principal subjects, who were not afraid of declaring to the world that they had spirit to conceive, and wealth to accomplish, the noblest undertakings.
It is by their agency that the sublimest spiritual conceptions can be brought to the sphere of the senses, and the noblest, loftiest aims of to-day can be made glorious realizations of the future.
We observe how scholars and philosophers confound the noblest and most exalted emotions with the animal propensities instead of distinguishing between them.
Her daughters were queens of beauty, fitted to inspire the Love of her noblest sons.
To love is, therefore, a duty, the fulfillment of which should engage our noblest powers.
Only under its influence does she unfold the noblest powers of her being.
He considers man in every phase of his existence, from the rayless atom to the grand upbuilding of the noblest work of God.
Next morning the noblest matrons, headed by Veturia, the aged mother of Corolanus, and by his wife Volumnia, holding her little children by the hand, came to his tent.
When the news of the barbarous death of Regulus reached Rome, the Senate is said to have given Hamilcar and Bostar, two of the noblest Carthaginian prisoners, to the family of Regulus, who revenged themselves by putting them to death with cruel torments.
They were ordered to send 300 youths of the noblest families to meet the Consuls at Lilybaeum, and were told that the Consuls would acquaint them with the farther orders of the Senate.
Under these circumstances, two young men, belonging to one of the noblest families in Rome, came forward to save the Republic, but perished in the attempt.
Tiberius was thus, by birth and marriage, connected with the noblest families in the Republic--the grandson of the conqueror of Hannibal--the son-in-law of the Chief of the Senate--and the brother-in-law of the destroyer of Carthage.
Latin literature, distinguished by wild passion and the noblest diction.
But he soon surrounded himself with spies and informers, and put to death the noblest men of his time.