patriciate

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Her name had been bandied about by traitors, her person been bought and sold as the price of the blackest sacrilege that had ever disgraced the patriciate of Rome.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in the year eight hundred; and so the patriciate terminated.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

The oligarchical rule was so severe, that a patrician marrying a woman of the lower class forfeited his right to participate in the government, and deprived his offspring of the patriciate.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo

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 James, Henry

Foremost among these was the great commercial capital, Amsterdam, whose rich burgher patriciate did not scruple on occasion to defy the authority of the States-General, the stadholder and even of the States of Holland themselves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various