nōbĭlĭtas (noun F) : nobilis.
* Celebrity, fame, renown (very rare): eam nobilitatem amittundam video,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 14: praedicationem nobilitatemque despicere,Cic. Arch. 11, 26: repentina,Liv. 1, 34; cf.: aliquem nobilitate praecurrere,Nep. Thras. 1, 3.
* High or noble birth, nobility: ad illustrandam nobilitatem suam,Cic. Brut. 16, 62: nobilitate sui municipii facile primus,id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; Ov. P. 4, 16, 44; Juv. 8, 20.
* Meton., the nobility, the nobles, the aristocracy: nobilitatis fautor,Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: omnis noster nobilitas interiit,Caes. B. G. 7, 38: nobilitas rempublicam deseruerat,Liv. 26, 12; opp. plebs,id. 6, 42: superbia commune nobilitatis malum,Sall. J. 64, 1; Luc. 3, 77.—With verb in plur.: namque coepere nobilitas dignitatem in dominationem vertere,Sall. J. 41, 5.
* Noble or excellent quality, nobleness, excellence, superiority: cum florere Isocratem nobilitate discipulorum videret,Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 141: eloquio tantum nobilitatis inest,Ov. P. 2, 5, 56; Vell. 1, 4, 2: nobilitate ingenitā,Tac. A. 1, 29: prima croco Cilicio,Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31: locorum,id. 3, 5, 6, § 40: columbarum,id. 10, 37, 53, § 110: obstetricum nobilitas (i. e. nobilissimae obstetrices),id. 28, 6, 18, § 67.—Prov.: nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus,Juv. 8, 20.