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What is the noun for patricians?

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patrician
  1. (antiquity) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
  2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
  3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “No matter how wealthy he was, a plebeian could not become a patrician except in accordance with the lex curiata.”
patriciate
  1. The rank of a patrician
  2. The aristocracy or nobility
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Here the rural areas too were in the hands of the towns and the patriciate ruled unchallenged.”
      “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.”
patricianism
  1. The rank or character of patricians.
patritian
  1. Obsolete form of patrician.
patricianisms
  1. plural of patricianism
patriciates
patritians
  1. plural of patritian
patricians
  1. plural of patrician
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights.”
      “He was stared at a bit rudely, but not spoken to by the sedate patricians of blue-blooded society who were present.”
      “Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.”
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