aristocratic

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Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

As an undergraduate at Cambridge, the young Martin befriended the aristocratic Ben Fitzmaurice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

I didn’t realize it at the time, but there was also insecurity there: An American embarrassed by a rough, unsophisticated America, envious of Europe’s aristocratic polish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Born in London in 1934 into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart was the daughter of Viscount Castlereagh, who later became The 8th Marquess of Londonderry.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins.

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