Magnate Definition

Magnate Sentence Examples

• When she returned to Petersburg both the magnate and the prince were there, and both claimed their rights.

• He lived much in Lancashire, managed his enormous estates with great skill, and did a great amount of work as a local magnate.

• He was chosen for this particular mission as being himself a Hungarian magnate conversant with Hungarian affairs, but at the same time of the party devoted to the court.

• Christian revenged himself by executing the magnate Torben Oxe, who, on very creditable evidence, was supposed to have been Dyveke's murderer, despite the strenuous opposition of Oxe's fellow-peers; and henceforth the king lost no opportunity of depressing the nobility and raising plebeians to power.

• Henry put it down with a strong hand, forbidding all liveries entirely, save for the mere domestic retainers of each magnate.