Kingly vs Noble - What's the difference?
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Majestic and regal.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* kingly magnificence
* Jonathan Swift
* Shakespeare
* G. Massey
* Cowper
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
*, chapter=5
, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
As adjectives the difference between kingly and noble
is that kingly is majestic and regal while noble is having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.As an adverb kingly
is in a royal manner.As a noun noble is
an aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.As a proper noun Noble is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kyngly, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- a kingly government
- the kingly couch
- The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.
- Leave kingly' backs to cope with ' kingly cares.
Derived terms
* kinglinessEtymology 2
From (etyl) kyngly, from (etyl) *.noble
English
(wikipedia noble)Noun
(en noun)- This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
Antonyms
* commoner * plebeianHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* half-noble * noble gasAdjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}