Definition of Magnates

1. Noun. (plural of magnate) ¹

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Definition of Magnates

1. magnate [n] - See also: magnate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnates

magna cum laude
magna opera
magnalities
magnality
magnalium
magnanerie
magnaneries
magnanery
magnanimities
magnanimity
magnanimous
magnanimously
magnanimousness
magnascope
magnate
magnates (current term)
magnatraction
magnelium
magnes
magnesemia
magneses
magnesia
magnesia and alumina oral suspension
magnesia magma
magnesian
magnesias
magnesic
magnesiferous
magnesio-
magnesioaubertite

Literary usage of Magnates

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

1. The Second Partition of Poland: A Study in Diplomatic History by Robert Howard Lord (1915)
"Below the magnates stood the large number of fairly well-to-do szlachta, ... Hundreds and thousands of them lived at the courts of the magnates, ..."

2. Governments and Parties in Continental Europe by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1896)
"The Table of magnates, as the name implies, is an aristocratic body. ... 1 Some of the hereditary magnates are Croats by race. 1 Ulbrich, p. 156. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"However, both he and his sons and successors after him, John Albert (1492-1501) and Alexander I (1501-6), tried in vain to break the power of the magnates ..."

4. Our Benevolent Feudalism by William James Ghent (1902)
"CHAPTER III OUR magnates WITH the rise of the magnates to. power comes a growing self-consciousness of their authority and responsibility. ..."

5. Hungary and Transylvania: With Remarks on Their Condition, Social, Political by John Paget (1850)
"—Composition of the Lower Chamber.—County Members.—Delegate System—its Advantages in Hungary—Borough Members.—Members of the Clergy—of magnates, ..."

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