Breeding and Nobility

Breeding

Breeding noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.

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Nobility and breeding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nobility" instead a noun "Breeding".

Nearby Words: breed, breeder

Nobility noun - Impressiveness of beauty on a large scale.

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Breeding and nobility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breeding" instead a noun "Nobility".

Nearby Words: noble, nobly

human	human breeding	human nobility
old	old breeding	old nobility
high	high breeding	high nobility
low	low breeding	low nobility
Other adjectives: proper, sheer, actual, personal, possible, lesser.

Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic story Olalla, about a dying family of nobility who it is implied have suffered from bad breeding, causing them to develop some odd habits.

Source: Cannibal Clan
In fact, it was the breeding program that created powerful psychics as well as leaving the nobility inbred with a number of "lethal recessives" was brought about to strengthen the psychic gifts inherited from the Chieri.

Source: Half Human Hybrid / Literature
And Granny Weatherwax has passed for nobility in both Witches Abroad and Maskerade by simply dressing the part and being her usual bossy know-it-all self, since many folks on the Disc "confuse bad manners with good breeding".

Source: Bavarian Fire Drill

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