patricianaten.
/pəˈtrɪʃneɪt/, U.S. /pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)nət/, /pəˈtrɪʃəˌneɪt/ Now rare.
= patriciate n.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > patrician > position of patrician
patriciate1656
patricianate1856
patricianship1867
patricianhood1885
1856 T. M. Post Skeptical Era Mod. Hist. 235 Men lifted to the pontifical chair by..the favors of frail ladies of the Roman patricianate.
1859 J. C. Hobhouse Italy II. 225 It was the endeavour of the people and nobles to deprive Leo III. of all temporal power, that made him apply to Charlemagne, and merge both the republic and the patricianate in the imperial title of the Frank.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. iii. ix. 93 The solitary, eccentric figure pursued by the hatreds of a renounced Patricianate.
1996 G. C. Schoolfield Hist. Finland's Lit. 546 The Swedish-speaking patricianate disdained Finland's Swedish countryside culture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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