patriciate

Example Sentences

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Its patriciate, its people, its government were not what government or people or patriciate were in other countries of Western Christendom.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

The patriciate succeeded the imperial, being the seventh head, and only of short duration, about fifty years.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

In a growing patriciate home had become a weariness, marriage a form, children a trouble, and the decline of motherhood an alarming fact.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving

He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew

The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.

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