unnoble
Adjective
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Adjective
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.
- 1800, William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second
- Not noble; ignoble; base.
- (metallurgy) Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
- unnoble metal
- (metallurgy) base, see base metal
unnoble (unnobles, present participle unnobling; past and past participle unnobled)
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) no longer noble
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