patriciate

Example Sentences

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To the Amsterdam patriciate the yearly visit of the Queen is a social function full of interest.

From Dutch Life in Town and Country by Hough, P. M.

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

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

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

When Paul Diacre says, that Charles added Rome to his States from the year 774; it is according to Duquet an hyperbolical expression53 since Charles himself was satisfied with the simple patriciate.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois