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noblesse oblige
noun
(no-blesse o-blige)
the obligation of those of high rank to be honorable and generous (often used ironically)
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nobility
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piety
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altruism
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condescension
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aristocracy
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servility
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humility
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magnanimity
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beneficence
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politeness
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liberality
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gentility
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noblesse
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munificence
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aristocratic
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chivalry
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snobbishness
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nobleness
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snobbery
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politesse
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dandyism
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hauteur
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lordly
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parvenu
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courtliness
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patrician
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vainglory
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amour propre
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imperiousness
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haughtiness
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solicitousness
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rectitude
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poshness
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superciliousness
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abstemiousness
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kindliness
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paternalism
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priggishness
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decencies
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respectfulness
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miserliness
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wryness
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puritanism
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sybarite
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gentlemanliness
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niceness
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chivalric
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obsequiousness
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moralism
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garrulousness
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ostentation
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eleemosynary
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grandiloquence
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egalitarianism
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smugness
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anglophilia
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knavery
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suavity
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whiggish
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commonweal
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idealism
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encomia
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civilities
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royalism
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pretension
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intellectualism
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enlightened
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rooseveltian
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benefaction
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foppery
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stoics
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abnegation
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suppliant
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ostentatiousness
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rusticity
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elitism
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cravenness
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hubris
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deracination
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reverence
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benthamite
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virtuousness
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diffidence
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detestation
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stoicism
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facetiousness
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couth
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concupiscence
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pompousness
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aristos
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liberalism
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cosmopolite
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sanctimony
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glibness
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prickliness
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unworldliness
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statesmanship
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