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NOBLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a noble manner
Example:
she has behaved nobly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)
Context examples:
Elinor would not contend, and only replied, Whoever may have been so detestably your enemy, let them be cheated of their malignant triumph, my dear sister, by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own innocence and good intentions supports your spirits.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Nay, like the Ugly Duck of my friend Hans Andersen, he be no duck-thought at all, but a big swan-thought that sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to try them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You think only of yourself, and because you do not feel for Mr. Crawford exactly what a young heated fancy imagines to be necessary for happiness, you resolve to refuse him at once, without wishing even for a little time to consider of it, a little more time for cool consideration, and for really examining your own inclinations; and are, in a wild fit of folly, throwing away from you such an opportunity of being settled in life, eligibly, honourably, nobly settled, as will, probably, never occur to you again.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"My first view of it shall be in front," I determined, where its bold battlements will strike the eye nobly at once, and where I can single out my master's very window: perhaps he will be standing at it—he rises early: perhaps he is now walking in the orchard, or on the pavement in front.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
