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Definition of Aristocracies
1. aristocracy [n] - See also: aristocracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aristocracies
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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