the Venetian merchants became a great hereditary patriciate
威尼斯商人们变成了一个庞大的世袭贵族阶级。
Example sentencesExamples
Her book opens with a discussion of the changing understanding of the notion of nobility, and the ways in which the aspirations of the Venetian patriciate towards nobility developed during the course of the renaissance.
The dignity of office was in turn applied to the class that provided office-holders, to the point of creating an urban patriciate, a separate estate.
No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges.
The eighteenth century witnessed a reaction to this: the aristocratic tastes, attitudes and lifestyle of this patriciate came under increasing criticism.
As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges.
And, again with the exception of Basle, the urban patriciates showed unexpected vigour in moving to repress the rebels.
Governmental concerns for a well-ordered society ran parallel to those of urban patriciates.
Finally, the crisis with the Gracchus brothers revealed the weakness of the patriciate and of the constitution.
As defeatism spread from meetings and rallies into the social clubs of the wealthy and renowned, the Unionist patriciate expressed dismay.
1.1The position or rank of patrician in ancient Rome.
（古罗马的）贵族地位；贵族身份
he conferred on Ecdicius the patriciate which Anthemius had promised
Rhymes
initiate, novitiate
Definition of patriciate in US English:
patriciate
noun
1A noble order or class.
贵族等级，贵族阶级
the Venetian merchants became a great hereditary patriciate
威尼斯商人们变成了一个庞大的世袭贵族阶级。
Example sentencesExamples
Governmental concerns for a well-ordered society ran parallel to those of urban patriciates.
The eighteenth century witnessed a reaction to this: the aristocratic tastes, attitudes and lifestyle of this patriciate came under increasing criticism.
Her book opens with a discussion of the changing understanding of the notion of nobility, and the ways in which the aspirations of the Venetian patriciate towards nobility developed during the course of the renaissance.
And, again with the exception of Basle, the urban patriciates showed unexpected vigour in moving to repress the rebels.
The dignity of office was in turn applied to the class that provided office-holders, to the point of creating an urban patriciate, a separate estate.
As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges.
No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges.
Finally, the crisis with the Gracchus brothers revealed the weakness of the patriciate and of the constitution.
As defeatism spread from meetings and rallies into the social clubs of the wealthy and renowned, the Unionist patriciate expressed dismay.
1.1The position or rank of patrician in ancient Rome.