patriciate
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The seventh power was the patriciate, which continued about fifty years.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
The patriciate succeeded the imperial, being the seventh head, and only of short duration, about fifty years.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate.
From The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith
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
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
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