patriciate

Example Sentences

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Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate.

From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)

Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry

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 Earle, John

We have still to speak of the directly political functions of the rich, or, as M. Comte terms them, the patriciate.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart