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Definition of Squirearchy

squirearchy
Squirarchy Squir"arch*y, n. [Squire + -archy.] The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively. [Written also squirearchy.]

Meaning of Squirearchy from wikipedia

- The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners...
- Bourgeoisie and Imperialism embrace the usurers, the merchants, and the feudal squirearchy without to expel the Reformist Bourgeoisie from the Dominant Alliance...
- Otto Hintze described it, replaced the older system with its feudal squirearchy run in the interests of the ruling class, but which in its rudimentary...
- after 1850 (by benefactors among the Catholic aristocracy and recusant squirearchy), mainly Benedictine but including a Cistercian Abbey at Mount St. Bernard...
- also ****ociated with lords of the manor (who made up the traditional 'squirearchy'), as well as certain personal attendants and courtiers to the King,...
- fully and accept. His career pointed the transition from the political squirearchy of the eighteenth century to the m**** politics of Andrew Jackson's day"...
- "in the wilds of Northumberland, among the uncouth and quarrelsome squirearchical Osbaldistones", while Cathy Earnshaw "has strong similarities with Diana...
- category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or landed gentry. These tend either to have evolved from medieval hall...
- curriculum of the classics, and mostly served 'the aristocracy and the squirearchy'; most of the old endowed grammar schools serving a broad social base...
- several eminent authors, but attracted a coterie that was dubbed the Squirearchy. He was also a poet and historian, who captained a famous literary cricket-team...