burgher
noun
an inhabitant of a town, especially a member of the middle class; citizen.
burghership
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a word derived from
burgher.
Example Sentences
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The popular assembly was enlarged, and public harmony was secured; but Athenian burghership still remained a privilege which could not be acquired by the native of any other city.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske
What has already been said in Chapter II. about the origin of the Italian Republics will explain this definition of burghership.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske
No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
He declines to admit men who are in every way qualified to the burghership, though every other new country is competing for such men.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
