patriciate

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The old municipal patriciate, which used to form the connecting link between the bourgeoisie and the nobility, had disappeared, and a feeling of common civic fellowship had taken its place.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various