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What does noblesse mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being noble; nobleness.
  2. The nobility; peerage.
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Mitt Romney started off this campaign cycle as a noblesse oblige candidate.
But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige.
What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest?
In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain.
James, perhaps least of all the Stuarts, illustrated the principle of noblesse oblige.
And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show.

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