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Margrave :: Margrave (n.) The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis..

States-general :: States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty..

Grandeur :: Grandeur (n.) The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

Estate :: Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons..

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Optimates :: Optimates (n. pl.) The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares..

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

Cortes :: Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain..

Gentilesse :: Gentilesse (a.) Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.

Nobley :: Nobley (n.) The body of nobles; the nobility.

Ennoble :: Ennoble (v. t.) To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner..

Commoner :: Commoner (n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

Prince :: Prince (a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family..

Ignobility :: Ignobility (n.) Ignobleness.

Optimate :: Optimate (a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.

Noblesse :: Noblesse (n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females..

Countess :: Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count..

Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility..

Superior :: Superior (a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility..

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