Nobly
['nəʊblɪ] or ['nobli]
Definition
(adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.
(adv.) In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.
(adv.) Splendidly; magnificently.
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Examples
- She controlled herself nobly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly--persevering, self-reliant, self-denying! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Princess's guard fought nobly to the end, but they were soon overcome and slain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Thou hast done nobly, my son, said he, and thy labors will serve the interests of our Mother Church. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I was all in all then to him; or would he have given up his fortune, his family, as he nobly did to make me happy? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He expressed his resolution (which he nobly carried out) to play his part as son and brother. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But Jane will give me her love: yes--nobly, generously. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I now believe that it was only your innate sense of oppression--(yes; I, though a master, may be oppressed)--that made you act so nobly as you did. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The trial that your daughter Bella has undergone, is, perhaps, without a parallel, and has been borne, I will say, Nobly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There are the nobly independent beggars too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You have nobly deserved everything that I can do for you, as long as we both live. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You have carried out your self-imposed task nobly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Nobly they fought, but in vain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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