patriciate
Example Sentences
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Lady Barb verily appeared to have for the representative of the American patriciate a mysterious fascination.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
It was composed in the prison to which Theodoric had consigned the wisest of the 15old Roman patriciate; and it is commonly regarded as closing the canon of Roman literature.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate.
From The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith
