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- noun Plural form of
patriciate .
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Hence, political power shifted from the urban patriciates to the rural nobility.
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Cling rather to your system of exclusion and privilege, a system as old as the world, the support of dynasties and patriciates, a veritable machine for gelding men in order to secure the pleasures of a caste of Sultans.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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