Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Claim to honor and preference on the score of noble descent; the doctrine of inequality of birth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rank or character of patricians.
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- noun The rank or character of
patricians .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Greece an old manvantara had evolved patricianism and culture; which the pralaya following swept all away, except some relics perhaps in
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Lycurgus was wise in his generation when he sought by a rigid system to impose the plebeian virtues on Spartan patricianism.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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I imagine that in that second millennium B. C., in the early centuries of Kali-Yuga, you had a warrior class with their bards, inspired with high B.shido feeling, -- with chivalry and all that is fine in patricianism -- but no longer under the leadership of Adept Princes; -- the esoteric knowledge was now mainly in the hands of the Priest-class.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Society went wild over Mr. Gwynn; it discovered in him treasures of patricianism and a well-bred elegance.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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There befell no touch of vulgarity; the effect was as retiringly genteel as though the taste providing it belonged to a Howard or a Vere de Vere and based itself upon ten unstained centuries of patricianism.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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