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==Origins==
==Origins==
Anglo-Norman and Middle French nobilité valour, merit, renown (mid 11th cent. in Old French as nobilitet), nobility of birth (mid 15th cent.), nobles, aristocracy (early 16th cent.; in Anglo-Norman also in sense ‘great deed’) or their etymon classical [[Latin]] nobilitas renown, distinction, noble birth, nobles, aristocracy, loftiness of [[character]] < nobilis NOBLE adj. + -tas (see -TY suffix1; compare -ITY suffix). Compare Italian nobilità peerage, aristocracy (early 14th cent. in Dante; a1250 in sense ‘excellence, superiority’)
Anglo-Norman and Middle French nobilité valour, merit, renown (mid 11th cent. in Old French as nobilitet), nobility of birth (mid 15th cent.), nobles, aristocracy (early 16th cent.; in Anglo-Norman also in sense ‘great deed’) or their etymon classical [[Latin]] nobilitas renown, distinction, noble birth, nobles, aristocracy, loftiness of [[character]] < nobilis NOBLE adj. + -tas (see -TY suffix1; compare -ITY suffix). Compare Italian nobilità peerage, aristocracy (early 14th cent. in Dante; a1250 in sense ‘excellence, superiority’)
<center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Dignity]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Dignity this link].</center>
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Nobility''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Nobility '''''this link'''''].</center>
<center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Greatness]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Greatness '''''this link'''''].</center>
==Definitions==
==Definitions==
*I. The [[quality]] of nobleness.
*I. The [[quality]] of nobleness.
