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noblesse
/ nəʊˈblɛs /
noun
noble birth or condition
the noble class
Word History and Origins
Origin of noblesse1
Example Sentences
There might be just a dash of noblesse oblige in there, too, a little well-intentioned clemency from soccer’s great conqueror.
His noblesse oblige masked a steely newsman who stood by his publication and industry whenever they were under attack.
It's the "noblesse oblige" posturing of 19th-century industrialists, who pretended that building a few museums made up for grinding underpaid workers into dust.
Given the vast wealth gap between likely patrons and these portrait-subjects, the question creates an inescapable aura of noblesse oblige.
Today, Beek and his family run it out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
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