nobly
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5.3
- adverb
- /ˈnoʊbli/
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noblemente
- She acted nobly when she stood up for her friend in trouble.
- act nobly
So it's important from Socrates perspective to live well, and that means living nobly and justly.
- So it's important from Socrates perspective to live well, and that means living nobly and justly.
- To our posterity, let us nobly save, not meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
- And so he says that the good person ought to be a lover of self, since he will then benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows.
- But my experience so far has been that when you see people bear their suffering nobly, there's nothing in that but good.
- Like if you do that nobly, there'll be something to you.
- The men's in Latin for the energetic enduring nobly.
- So Kip nobly put aside his own JVM and we used the Sun JVM.
Examples
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We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Blog text (33) -
Rolf died nobly, as befits a soldier.
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Was this not nobly done?
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Truly, your king has built nobly.
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Will they be remembered for how nobly they fought?
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And when you've been chosen by an angel, you must sit up straight and act nobly and do good.
Fiction book (2001) -
For if anything forbids you to live nobly, nothing forbids you to die nobly.
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These brave men, who struggled and died here, have consecrated this ground, and it is for us, the living, to finish the work which they so nobly advanced.
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When Benjamin Franklin said, "Where there is freedom, there is my country," Thomas Paine nobly retorted, "Where there is none, there is mine."
Academic text (2000) -
They have gone bravely, nobly, ever forward, realizing that there is no other duty now but to save the fatherland.
Synonyms
25
4.2
In a way that shows honesty and fairness
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3.3
In a way that makes people respect or praise someone
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6.5
In a way that is morally correct
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5.8
In a way that shows good moral behavior
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5.9
Acting honestly and fairly
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7.2
Acts in a way that deserves praise
Antonyms
How Noble
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nobly comes from noble, from an old word meaning 'well-known' or 'high-born', plus the ending -ly that turns it into a word that tells how something is done. Because a noble person was expected to show honour, courage, and good morals, to act nobly means to behave with high moral quality and bravery.