Definition of Aristocracies

1. Noun. (plural of aristocracy) ¹

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Definition of Aristocracies

1. aristocracy [n] - See also: aristocracy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aristocracies

ariseth
arish
arishes
arishth
arising
arisings
arist
arista
aristae
aristarainite
aristarchies
aristarchy
aristas
aristate
aristo
aristocracies (current term)
aristocracy
aristocrat
aristocratic
aristocratical
aristocratically
aristocraticalness
aristocratick
aristocraticness
aristocratisation
aristocratism
aristocratization
aristocrats
aristolochene synthase
aristolochic

Literary usage of Aristocracies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory of Politics: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Governments, and the by Richard Hildreth (1854)
"Comparison of Civic and Patrician aristocracies. THERE is one important particular in which the aristocracies which spring up in, and succeed to, ..."

2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"VI Of such distinctions between aristocracies as are founded on differences between the modes ... Of such aristocracies as are styled limited monarchies. ..."

3. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"Class Divisions in aristocracies and Oligarchies. In the old aristocracies there was a sharp line separating the privileged and the unprivileged ; and the ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1882)
"If we go back to the earliest stages of the world's history, to those days when aristocracies were first instituted, we find the "Etudes sur la selection ..."

5. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1880)
"As European society advanced, heroic and heaven-born kings were generally succeeded by aristocracies ;2 who, in their turn, were constrained to share their ..."

6. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"... it could not be otherwise than that they should communicate a similar spirit and excite revolt against the most odious of European aristocracies. ..."

7. English Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Maine by William Graham (1899)
"question of the origin of aristocracies and their different kinds arises, ... His account of the origin of kings and aristocracies is interesting but ..."

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