2 uses
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Definition
a ranking — typically by importance; or something with such a ranking — such as an organization of people
- Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.Book One — 1805 (6% in)
- Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.Book Ten — 1812 (0% in)
There are no more uses of "hierarchy" in War and Peace.
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