different between nobless vs noblesse

English

Noun

nobless (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of noblesse

Anagrams

• Belsons

English

Etymology

From Middle English noblesse, from Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?(?)?bl?s/

Noun

noblesse (usually uncountable, plural noblesses)

1. The quality of being noble; nobleness.
   • c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, The Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms:

     I yow took/ out of youre pouere array / And putte yow / in estaat of heigh noblesse.

   • 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams

     But thou , whose noblesse keeps one stature still

2. The nobility; peerage.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.8:

     Faire braunch of noblesse, flowre of cheualrie, / That with your worth the world amazed make, / How shall I quite the paines, ye suffer for my sake?

   • All gentlemen are almost obliged to it: and I know no reason we should give that advantage to the commonalty of England to be foremost in brave actions, which the noblesse of France would never suffer in their peasants

Anagrams

• boneless

French

Etymology

Old French, see noble +? -esse

• Cognate with Catalan noblesa, Portuguese nobreza, Spanish nobleza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.bl?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

noblesse f (plural noblesses)

1. nobility

Derived terms

• lettre de noblesse
• noblesse de robe
• titre de noblesse

Further reading

• “noblesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).

Noun

noblesse (uncountable)

1. noblesse

Descendants

• English: noblesse