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burgherdom

noun as in middle class

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The groans of an oppressed peasantry, the curses of an overtaxed burgherdom, could not pierce through the chorus of merriment.

Nowhere has burgherdom had so wide and so productive a career as that which fell to its lot in France.

It was the struggle, sometimes sullen, sometimes violent, of feudal lordship against municipal burgherdom.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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