Heather Brooke

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

American Journalist

Adam Curtis

James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and '60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country away from politics and towards the markets and the financial sector.

British Director

Jami Attenberg

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

American Author

Antonin Scalia

To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

American Judge

Rob Sheffield

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

A. A. Gill

Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.

British Writer

Linda Colley

High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for politicians' spouses to play an active political role.

British Historian

Alan Furst

Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.

Kristin Scott Thomas

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

English Actress

Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

American Novelist

Use 'patrician' to refer to people with noble heritage, especially in historical or literary contexts.

Nobility Usage

'Patrician' implies class and elegance in today's usage, but can sound pretentious if overused.

Modern Connotation

'Patrician' as an adjective can suggest sophistication or a refined lifestyle associated with the elite.

Cultural Connotations

The noun 'patrician' often refers to the specific class of ancient Roman society, not just any noble person.

Historical Specificity

When discussing ancient Rome, 'patrician' is used accurately to depict societal hierarchy.

Ancient Rome Context

In religious context, especially historical, 'patrician' denotes a bishop or other high authority.

Religious Historical Title

Today, the term 'patrician' is rarely used in religious contexts and may sound archaic.

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 Her age, her patrician family lineage, and her apparent good health makes her the best candidate to serve the goddess Vesta in the eyes of the Romans. Her parents are proud that their daughter's been chosen. Licinia is afraid, but she has no choice in the matter.

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