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You humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that relationship could exist apart from hierarchy. (source)hierarchy = a ranking by importance
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They don't see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, (source)hierarchical = classification by importance
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I had just taken a very big step up in the hierarchy of the monster. (source)hierarchy = levels
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Kingdoms, empires, churches, armies have all been structured into hierarchies. (source)hierarchies = something divided into levels -- typically by importance
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But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of a hierarchical society. (source)hierarchical = having a structure that ranks people by importance
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Natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies. (source)hierarchy = (basis of) ranking -- typically by importance
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The family was shrinking, the old hierarchy compressing.† (source)
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Dominance hierarchies enhance stability in natural populations, and some less natural, Kya thought.† (source)
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Always remember, fencing requires a mastery of skills that are sequential and hierarchical in nature.† (source)
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During its first period, while theocracy is organizing Europe, while the Vatican is rallying and reclassing about itself the elements of a Rome made from the Rome which lies in ruins around the Capitol, while Christianity is seeking all the stages of society amid the rubbish of anterior civilization, and rebuilding with its ruins a new hierarchic universe, the keystone to whose vault is the priest—one first hears a dull echo from that chaos, and then, little by little, one sees, arising from beneath the breath of Christianity, from beneath the hand of the barbarians, from the fragments of the dead Greek and Roman architectures, that mysterious Romanesque architecture, sister of the theocrati† (source)
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People who were used to the rigid theocracy of the Pharisees couldn't handle the idea of a popular, nonhierarchical church.† (source)nonhierarchical = not rankedstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonhierarchical means not and reverses the meaning of hierarchical. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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Ender watched from the fringes of the group as Bernard established the hierarchy.† (source)
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She had remained silent in full awareness of the worth of her position as a charity employee, but in the memorandum she noted that she had said nothing not because of negligence but out of respect for the hierarchies in the section.† (source)
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While Max did not know all the intricacies of hag culture, he had divined that it was deeply hierarchical and that the grandeur of one's given name was a surefire indicator of status.† (source)
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In all slave worlds there soon develops a hierarchic design, a pecking order, patterns of influence and privilege; because of her great good fortune Sophie found herself among a small elite.† (source)
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In essence: the hierarchy of all hierarchies.† (source)
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