PATRICIAN in a Sentence

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We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at ...

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 Meanings and Examples of PATRICIAN
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patrician
 a.  belong to noble origin; having high birth
Classic Sentence:
1  We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
2  The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden times, all are subjects of this fairy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
3  With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
4  He stared angrily back at the softly lit drawing-room of the hotel in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland housed in calm.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  We greatly admired her well-bred, patrician elegance.
2  Joan Fontaine, the patrician blond actress who rose to stardom as a haunted second wife in the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rebecca” in 1940 and won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a terrified newlywed in Hitchcock's “Suspicion,” died.