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Literary depictions of "nobility" span a broad spectrum of meanings, ranging from formal, inherited rank to abstract qualities of virtue and inner strength. In some works, it designates hereditary privilege and official status, as seen in discussions of coats of arms or titles granted by authority [1][2][3]. At other times, it is used metaphorically to evoke an elevated character or moral ideal, where a person’s inner worth is celebrated despite adverse circumstances [4][5][6]. Moreover, the term can embody the refined spirit of cultural and intellectual pursuits, suggesting that true essence lies not only in birthright but also in the nobility of ideas [7][8].
  1. Letters of nobility and the name of Du Lis were granted by Charles VII.
    — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
  2. — N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875.
    — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
  3. Our father, Tchimasha-Himalaysky, was a cantonist, but he died with an officer's rank and left us his title of nobility and a small estate.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  4. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary—never—no one.
    — from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. It is a lofty ideal that redeems the life from the curse of commonness and imparts a touch of nobility to the personality.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  6. About all this there was a nobility of soul—a dignity of candor—which delighted—which enchanted me—which eternally riveted my chains.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  7. Altogether, Rakitin's discourse fascinated the public by its independence and the extraordinary nobility of its ideas.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. How then shall we explain the unexpected nobility of the neurosis which fears nothing for itself and everything for the beloved person?
    — from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud

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