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Definition of Nepotists
1. nepotist [n] - See also: nepotist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepotists
Literary usage of Nepotists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... not as monopolists and nepotists, but for their eagerness to lavish preferment
upon men of the humblest station who gave proof of ability. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1875)
"... of pontificates of unblushing nepotists such as Sixtus IV. and Alexander \
I., or of men like a Julius II., patron of sculptors and painters and captain ..."
3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"The pluralists and nepotists, who feared his severity, joined with the foes of
all taxation and the enemies of all foreigners in denouncing the legate. ..."
4. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"The pluralists and nepotists, who feared his severity, joined with the foes of
all taxation and the enemies of all foreigners in denouncing the legate. ..."
5. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"Many nepotists, sectaries, and partisans are simply victims of one of these
unscrupulous group moralities. Adherents of sects — anarchists, Jesuits, ..."
6. History of England from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward by Thomas Frederick Tout (1905)
"The pluralists and nepotists, who feared his severity, joined with the foes of
all taxation and the enemies of all foreigners in denouncing the legate. ..."
7. Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 by Guy Stanton Ford (1922)
"nest of grafters and nepotists stirred up by Stein's vigorous measures was far
less significant than the active but ineffectual opposition of his chief, ..."
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