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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The patriciate succeeded the imperial, being the seventh head, and only of short duration, about fifty years.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David
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
He tried to revive the patriciate; he wanted to have, cooperating with him, a governing class with the ancient sense of responsibility and turn for affairs.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
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