Meanings
- archaicno pluralraregovernmentA government led by old women or old men.
I am sure not one of you means to go into the pulpit as the spokesman of the graocracy, or to secure a contemptible and partial success by offering rancid incense to popular ignorance and hatred and prejudice.
1898 March 26, “Aeschylus as a Preacher of Righteousness”, in Queen's University Journal, volume XXV, number 10, Kingston, Canada: Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, via Internet Archive, page 1512 more examples
And such, we are fully persuaded, will be the sentiments of every ancient dame in the British empire, who shall read the account we shall now give of the vaunted bonne Societé, under Madame de Genlis's admired and lamented graocracy.
1830 March 29, “Madame De Genlis”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVII, number CLXIV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, via Internet Archive, page 484And now that old women have been added to the legislature, so that our gerontocracy is reinforced by a graocracy of middle-aged and old women like Lady Rhondda, Lady Astor, Lady Frances Balfour, and Mrs. Betrand Russel, the advent of increased restraints upon the young of both sexes is a certainty.
1927, Anthony M. Ludovici, “The More Remote Causes of Modern Male Degeneracy—Part I”, in Man: An Indictment, London: Constable & Co LTD, via Internet Archive, page 303
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From Ancient Greek γραῦς (graûs, “old woman”) + -ocracy.
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