Meanings
plural dulocracies · alternative doulocracy
- 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 1652 more examples
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 JournalistManderians 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
- Ancient Greekδουλοκρατία
- Englishdulocracy
From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”).
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