Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Aristocratic rank, privilege, or character; the state or condition of being aristocratic in rank or feeling; membership of or adherence to a privileged class.
Wiktionary
- n. The principles of aristocrats.
- n. Aristocrats collectively.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The principles of aristocrats.
- n. rare Aristocrats, collectively.
Etymologies
- aristocrat + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness.”
“Napoleonic employment he, if he had not called himself, had allowed himself to be called "M. _de_ Beyle" -- an assumption which though dropped, was not forgotten in the days of his later anti-aristocratism.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“Russian writer Mikhail Kheifets, who was imprisoned with Stus and later published memoirs about him, wrote about the poet's natural aristocratism.”
“ The accusations of unsociability, of individualism, of aristocratism, were closely connected with this particular mood.”
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