sort (noun) — sense 3

Condition above the vulgar; rank.

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Example
“What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?”
“He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.”
“It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.”
“Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.”
Order number
3
Part of speech
noun

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