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
The third estate wanted civil liberty above all; political liberty came second only, as a means and guarantee for the former.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
And in this they lagged behind their contemporary theorists of the bourgeoisie, who understood very well the historical significance at any rate of the struggle of the third estate against the nobles.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich
