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Definition of Patriciates
1. patriciate [n] - See also: patriciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriciates
Literary usage of Patriciates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... of the trades as guilds had been elaborated and was for a long time controlled
by the patriciates, came to essay a trial of strength with them. ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"... democratic revolution which substituted the influence of the artisans for that
of the old patriciates in the towns as the result of a struggle which was ..."
3. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... even though used to act politically as an order, could never put on that
orderly and legal character which distinguishes the true civic patriciates. ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
"As for the cultural value of patriciates, he has recorded in London Films his
opinion that they cost more economically (and sometimes morally) than they are ..."
5. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... even though used to act politically as an order, could never put on that
orderly and legal character which distinguishes the true civic patriciates. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... und legal character which distinguishes the true civi patriciates. It never
could come so nearly as a civi patriciate could to being something like the ..."
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