patricianism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

patrician +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

patricianism (usually uncountable, plural patricianisms)

  1. 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.