patriciate
Americannoun
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the patrician class.
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patrician rank.
noun
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the dignity, position, or rank of a patrician
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the class or order of patricians
Etymology
Origin of patriciate
1650–60; < Medieval Latin patriciātus equivalent to Latin patrici(us) ( see patrician) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Her name had been bandied about by traitors, her person been bought and sold as the price of the blackest sacrilege that had ever disgraced the patriciate of Rome.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
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 Henry James
Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
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