Meanings
alternative anti-nobilism
- uncountableOpposition to the nobility.
Nor was Beaumarchais himself an obvious proponent of rank anti-nobilism: for he himself was a noble.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3251 more example
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.
2008, Howard G Brown, Ending the French Revolution, page 159
Origin
From anti- + Latin nōbilis + -ism.
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