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aristocratic

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aristocratic
relating to or characteristic of aristocracy or an aristocrat


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Nietzsche as a sociologist aims at an aristocratic arrangement of society.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
He looked at the old chair, and thought it quite too shabby to keep company with a new set of mahogany chairs and an aristocratic sofa which had just arrived from London.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
 
 
 
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