nobly
/ˈnəʊbli
/adverb
1From a family of high rank: the nobly born Ralph d’Escures two warriors, nobly bred...
- Being nobly born, we all had our own horses.
- They wanted to live nobly, that is, they wanted to live without working.
- The seigneurial system was intimately bound up with the ideal of living nobly: it was designed to let seigneurs consume what peasants produced.
2In a way that shows fine personal qualities or high moral principles; gallantly: a great soldier who has fought nobly in many battles she nobly sacrificed her love to allow him to marry Margaret...
- He nobly sacrificed his life in a vain attempt to save the rest of his team.
- I believe that you served our country nobly.
- Seeing the wounded and unconscious Palamon and Arcite, who have fought nobly, he orders they should be tended but kept prisoner.
2.1In a grand or impressive manner: gigantic chairs with velvet padding were standing nobly on raised platforms nobly crafted surfaces...
- Thirty of the Academy's nobly titled 'Academicians' will show a large selection of work for their annual Christmas exhibition.
- My new plate sets off my cupboard very nobly.
- His voice was essentially lyrical, but he could raise it to nobly heroic heights.