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Definition of Squirearchies
1. squirearchy [n] - See also: squirearchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squirearchies
Literary usage of Squirearchies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford and Their Movements: John Wycliffe by Samuel Parkes Cadman (1916)
"The landed proprietors and the squirearchies took pattern from the reigning house,
which was sunk in debauchery until the accession of George III, ..."
2. Shelley by John Addington Symonds (1901)
"Born in the stronghold of squirearchies! prejudices, nursed amid the trivial
platitudes that then passed in England for philosophy, his keen spirit flew to ..."
3. The Church and Its Social Mission: (the Baird Lecture for 1901) by John Marshall Lang (1902)
"Thus, as the years passed, there arose territorial aristocracies and squirearchies,
with many gradations, each grade reproducing the essential idea of the ..."
4. The Future of Our Agriculture by Henry William Wolff (1918)
"... foreign squirearchies. Although of course dependent upon Agriculture, the
youth of this select class of ours appears " above " making a regular ..."
5. The Unspeakable Prussian by Charles Sheridan Jones (1914)
"... and instinct is to obey, cannot constitute a democracy likely to prove very
dangerous, even to the most selfish and contemptible of squirearchies. ..."
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