>Thank you. Was that so hard?
<Noble> means both
-- aristocratic
(Webster: "2: of high birth or exalted rank: aristocratic")
-- and simply noble: superior, exquisite, generous
etcetera (e.g. "it was highly noble gesture of mine
that I wasted my time posting obvious common places
to someone who don't perceive them as such").
The same applies to its German translation, <edel>:
-- adelig, aristokratisch or
-- noble in the sense of edelmütig, nice, generous,
for which there is also the German word <nobel>
(e.g. "eine noble Geste von mir; eine noble Gesinnung"
etc.).
Every (but really every one!) of my examples
has the meaning of ARISTOCRACY (ask the opinion
of all other subscribers to cybalist).
However, the secondary meaning of <noble>, not
pertaining to aristocracy is anyway IRRELEVANT.
Because in your own topic, the Polish Szlachta,
its members were/are aristocrats, and not some
other social groups.
But one of your most striking, flabbergasting,
assertions is the one you made today: that a ...
KING (!) is not noble. If a king is not a noble
man, then "lasciate ogni speranza, voi,
ch'entrate..."
(Behüte Dich Gott.)
George