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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

No-blĕss' or Nō'bless or No-blĕssé or Nō'blesse, n.

noun

} (Synop., §130), n. [Fr. noblesse, Pr. noblesa, nobleza, Sp. nobleza, Pg. nobreza, O. It. noblezza. See NOBLE.] No-blĕssé, or Nō'blesse }

  1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.
  2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. Dryden.