third estate

Example Sentences

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And now the fencing has come to the Supreme Court, to the third estate.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

The term had a special resonance with his Francophone audience because it recalled the third estate, “tiers-état,” of the French Revolution.

From Time • Aug. 26, 2015

Has the King ordered us, too, to sit with the third estate?

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

Having kept his second estate, and filled the measure of his responsibilities in the flesh, he passes the veil of death, and enters a third estate, or probationary sphere.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

The woman’s rights movement has very few adherents in the third estate, and it is exactly the women of this estate that ought to be the natural supporters of the movement.

From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe