plebeiate

Definitions

The class of plebeians or common citizens.

Ancient-Rome, no-plural, rare

Examples

“Those writers, on the other hand, who take⟳ a more aristocratic view⟳ of early institutions, and consider⟳ the ceorls as an essentially inferior class, would look⟳ upon "commendation" as their original and necessary condition. The Roman plebeiate is of course an argument for the latter view⟳.”

“In the old life of the pagus and the gens, the weaker sought protection of the stronger by a willing vassalage, which ripened, when the state was formed, into the Plebeiate which had its origin in clientship.”

“I propose⟳ that this ordo was a stratified and competitive hierarchy, a network with multiple interacting and context-specific hierarchies (clan, patriciate, plebeiate, age, sexual status, social position, sacerdotal public office, wealth etc.) […]”

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