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
The third estate, formerly hardly recognized as having an existence, is becoming the controlling power in most of those ancient communities.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
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.
It was the lower class that won the battles of the third estate; that took the Bastille, and made France a constitutional monarchy; that took the Tuileries, and made France a Republic.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
