propertied
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of propertied
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Hamilton feared a slippery slope toward rule by the people, not the propertied, threatening the development of capitalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
County, Sepulveda Boulevard, 40 miles from Mission Hills to Long Beach, named for Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, the propertied pioneer rancher and paterfamilias to the influential founding family.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
When America was founded, only white, propertied men could vote.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2021
The bourgeois view is that of the man who owns or expects to own property; the bourgeois class represents a small proportion of the whole population, and is sometimes described as the propertied class.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly
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