squirarchy

American  

[skwahyuhr-ahr-kee] / ˈskwaɪər ɑr ki /

noun

plural

squirarchies

1. squirearchy.

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Other Word Forms

• squirarchal adjective
• squirarchical adjective

Example Sentences

Another may say, "Why should the real democracy of a young country be tied to your snobbish old squirarchy?"

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Reports of this kind were well calculated to alarm both the Zemindars, who had waxed fat on the Permanent Settlement, and the credulous rayats, whose labour is indispensable to the zemindar squirarchy.

From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

These are just the people qualified to relieve their older neighbours, the local squirarchy, in their administrative work.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

All the magistrates, all the hierarchy, all the squirarchy of the county were assembled, with some few exceptions.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Hunt, Henry