squirearchy
English
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Noun
squirearchy (plural squirearchies)
- The landowning gentry.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Babbitt:
- Now, as one of the squirearchy, greeted with honorable salutations by the villagers, he marched into his office, and peace and dignity were upon him, and the morning's dissonances all unheard.
- 1930 [Cambridge University Press], G. G. Coulton, The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, 2000, Dover, page 37,
- We may characterise medieval village government not unfairly as squirearchy, though often a benevolent squirearchy enough, just as the squirearchy of the eighteenth century was often benevolent also.
- 1972, James A. Burkhart, Samuel Krislov, Raymond Lawrence Lee, American Government: the Clash of Issues, Prentice-Hall, page 92:
- For many years a combination of rural squirearchies and business interests held tight control of most state capitols.
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References
- “squirearchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SQUIREARCHY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
- Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Further reading
Landed gentry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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