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- adjective Opposed to the
aristocracy .
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Examples
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Imagination, not political courage or piety, is what finally ennobles the book: We become less and less interested in the anti-Southern, antisentimental, antiaristocratic, anti-everything-under-the-sun elements…and more and more concerned with its affirmations, which is to say we become more and more concerned with Jim.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Imagination, not political courage or piety, is what finally ennobles the book: We become less and less interested in the anti-Southern, antisentimental, antiaristocratic, anti-everything-under-the-sun elements…and more and more concerned with its affirmations, which is to say we become more and more concerned with Jim.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The parvenus, it is true, brought with them a train of middle-class attitudes and even a strain of antiaristocratic sentiment, but they brought with them, as well, the sneaking knowledge that there was a higher social stratum than that attainable by wealth alone.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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The parvenus, it is true, brought with them a train of middle-class attitudes and even a strain of antiaristocratic sentiment, but they brought with them, as well, the sneaking knowledge that there was a higher social stratum than that attainable by wealth alone.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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