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Definition of Magnates
1. magnate [n] - See also: magnate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnates
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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