nobiliary

[noh-bil-ee-er-ee, -bil-yuh-ree]

adjective

1. of or relating to the nobility.

nobiliary

/ nəˈbɪlɪərɪ /

adjective

1. of or relating to the nobility

Word History and Origins

Origin of nobiliary¹

From the French word nobiliaire, dating back to 1720–30. See noble, -ary

Word History and Origins

Origin of nobiliary¹

C18: from French nobiliaire; see _noble , _-ary

Example Sentences

If only a 21st-century title came with a nobiliary particle.

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Mixing with the higher classes of society, he wished, like them, to be known by a territorial possession, and framed the name now resounding through the world, prefixing to it the nobiliary particle, De.

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He was degraded, deprived of his nobiliary privileges, and condemned to twenty years' hard labour.

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A frontier line between classes so indefinite could not be maintained, especially as in England there was never a “nobiliary prefix” to stamp a person as a gentleman by his surname, as in France or Germany.4 The process was hastened, moreover, by the corruption of the Heralds’ College and by the ease with which coats of arms could be assumed without a shadow of claim; which tended to bring the “science of armory” into contempt.

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Should the emperor ever adopt such a course, there would follow from it another advantage still more important, namely, that it would gradually extinguish the abuses of the present nobiliary system, and would immediately rid the public departments of all those useless underlings, who now encumber the various offices solely with a view to acquire a footing among the privileged orders.

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