patricianism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
patricianism (usually uncountable, plural patricianisms)
- The rank or character of patricians.
- 1895, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, page 230:
- Here at last, it would seem, simple manhood is to have a chance to play his stake against Fortune with honest dice, uncogged by those three hoary sharpers, Prerogative, Patricianism, and Priestcraft.