patriciate
Example Sentences
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We have still to speak of the directly political functions of the rich, or, as M. Comte terms them, the patriciate.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill
Her name had been bandied about by traitors, her person been bought and sold as the price of the blackest sacrilege that had ever disgraced the patriciate of Rome.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
The seventh power was the patriciate, which continued about fifty years.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
The oligarchical rule was so severe, that a patrician marrying a woman of the lower class forfeited his right to participate in the government, and deprived his offspring of the patriciate.
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni
