antinobilism
English
Alternative forms
- anti-nobilism
Etymology
From anti- + Latin nōbilis -ism.
Noun
antinobilism (uncountable)
- Opposition to the nobility.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 325:
- Nor was Beaumarchais himself an obvious proponent of rank anti-nobilism: for he himself was a noble.
- 2008, Howard G Brown, Ending the French Revolution, page 159:
- Patrice Higonnet considers this the height of antinobilism during the French Revolution because it combined with the persecution of emigres by the military commissions created on 19 fructidor V.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 325: