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English
Etymology
From Middle English unnoble, equivalent to un- + noble.
Adjective
unnoble (comparative more unnoble, superlative most unnoble)
- (dated, chiefly pre 1900) Not of noble rank.
1800, William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second:Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.
- Not noble; ignoble; base.
- (metallurgy) Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
unnoble metal
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Verb
unnoble (third-person singular simple present unnobles, present participle unnobling, simple past and past participle unnobled)
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) no longer noble
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