Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NO'BLY, adv.

1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as, nobly born or descended. Dryden.
2. With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace.
3. Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained. Where could an emperor's ashes have been so nobly lodged as in the midst of his metropolis and on the top of so exalted a monument? Addison.