aristocracy

Upon his arrival in London, Mai became something of a celebrity among the aristocracy, and was welcomed by King George III.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

One of the signatories on the documents was a professional polo player - apt given that Dame Jilly was known for writing about polo-playing members of the aristocracy.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

However, Huppert emphasised the social symbolism of a vampire aristocracy that draws its power by feeding on ordinary mortals.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

But “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is less concerned about the aristocracy than what life is like for smallfolk like Dunk, an orphan who spent his early childhood scraping by in Flea Bottom.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

This story, embellished or not, became part of Andrew Jackson’s legacy as a defiant and lifelong enemy of the British and the world of privilege and aristocracy they represented.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Representative government likely has deeper roots than monarchies or aristocracies.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

As Wooldridge says, Enlightenment thinkers, aiming to match “talent to opportunity and knowledge to power,” stressed the difference between natural aristocracies of talents and artificial aristocracies of breeding and inheritance.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021

We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2015

In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis