dulocracy

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noun

A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noundulocracy (countable and uncountable, plural dulocracies)

plural dulocracies · alternative doulocracy

  1. countableuncountableA government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.

    In a dulocracy who are the slaves?

    1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 165
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    Or must the country passively submit to that dulocracy in politics which has become a stigma upon the nation, and a shame to the intelligence of the people?

    1855, Jam. Gord Bennett, Memoirs of Jam. Gord. Bennett and his Times: By a Journalist

    Manderians are not democrats; they are dulocrats, and the Manderweb symbolises our dulocracy. So, are you surprised that the dulocracy rules our country […] A dulocracy is "a Government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer" (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edn), […]

    2006, Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak, NGOs, Activists & Foreign Funds: Anti-nation Industry, page 145

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδουλοκρατία
  2. Englishdulocracy

From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”).

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