Similar words: oblige, obliged, jobless, noble, ignoble, ennoble, obliging, obligate. Meaning: n. the obligation of those of high rank to be honorable and generous (often used ironically).
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(1) But our noblesse oblige may be doing youths an extreme disservice.
(2) The tradition of noblesse oblige.
(3) The notion of noblesse oblige was part of the ethic of the country gentleman.
(4) They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
(5) Yet other friends point out that Rawls comes from an old southern family and has a patrician sense of noblesse oblige.
(6) You can see Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack offer up a couple of billion dollars apiece as acts of noblesse oblige .
(7) In the olden days kings and other nobles observing the principle of noblesse oblige fought at the head of their troops.
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