boyardom
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boyardom (uncountable)
- Boyars collectively.
- 1981, Alexander Yanov, The Origins of Autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian History, page 152:
- The interests of the Russian aristocracy — the boyardom — which by definition defended the social limitations on power (since these were a matter of life and death for it), did not contradict the interests of the peasant proto-bourgeoisie, which by definition defended the economic limitations on power (also a matter of life and death).