Assertion: nobility | /r/CapableOf | gain power
Facets:
value: at the expense of the king
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The most important difference was that, while in most European countries the nobility lost power as the ruler strove for absolute monarchy, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a reverse process occurred: the nobility actually gained power at the expense of the king, and enabled the political system to evolve into an oligarchy.