(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
Example Sentences:
(1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
(2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
(3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
(5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
(6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
(9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
(10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
(11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
(12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
(13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
(14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
(15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
(16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
(17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
(18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.
Patrician
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
(n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.
(n.) A person of high birth; a nobleman.
(n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet unlike his fellow ex-Bullingdon men and Tory patricians, Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson, Osborne does not make a consistent effort to play down his privilege or make it endearing.
(2) There must have been people who told him he was too patrician, too intelligent, as well as too old to break through in America.
(3) These patrician warnings that Corbyn only serves to drag Labour backwards serve to make me, as a young voter, feel patronised and unwanted.
(4) Most crucial of all, the patrician Tory moderates were diluted and eventually driven from power.
(5) And producers have given up on the [old BBC] patrician thing, the vision thing.
(6) This second population segment lived between the 12th and 18th century and belonged to a lower social class than the patricians from Worb.
(7) But, disliking the patrician RADA accents, she set off for America by walking to Liverpool.
(8) As his friends have been quick to point out, it was an outcome that reflected well on Profumo's patrician sense of duty and decency: few modern politicians would have the courage to follow his example.
(9) --In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Lausanne had to assert its own position between the patrician power of Bern, meanwhile elevated to federal capital, and industrious Geneva.
(10) It would be lazy and unreasonable to brand the 6,200 or so voting Academy members as bigots, yet their choices – and the choices made available to them – are shaped by a largely white, patrician hegemony in Hollywood’s executive suites.
(11) Following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate .
(12) That may have been more indicative of a clunky attempt to fuse the supposed cost of living crisis with recent events than any deep thought but still, to a lot of people it will have sounded like a patrician voice, apparently unaware that working-class people think about much more than their own lot and have just as strong feelings about the state and democracy as the residents of upscale neighbourhoods in London.
(13) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(14) In Le Carré’s book Burr was a patrician gent in the mould of George Smiley.
(15) There are many reasons why this will no longer wash. Those days of deference to patrician authority are over, and probably for the better.
(16) One critic shrewdly observed that Robinson exemplified the meritocratic arrogance that had replaced the patrician version.
(17) Though both are gaffe-prone, Eurosceptic populists, quietly scornful of Cameron's patrician reserve, Hutchings's fiery brand makes Johnson's sound quite thoughtful.
(18) For Hoggart, humane reading and humane education and humane culture and society should be open to everyone, and he deeply deplored those who saw themselves as privileged, not least the patrician William Rees-Mogg who, as chairman of the Arts Council, took it for granted that his journeys from London to his Somerset home and back should be provided by an Arts Council-funded chauffeur-driven car.
(19) But he enjoys the advantage of incumbency and a patrician-like reputation in Colorado.
(20) Cameron, who cultivates an image of middle class normality, will be horrified at the way the episode links him to a lethal cocktail of urban journalistic cynicism, patrician country pursuits, police corruption and Downing Street evasion.