predemocratic

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adjective

Before democracy.

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Meanings

adjectivepredemocratic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBefore democracy.

    Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite.

    2007 November 27, Michiko Kakutani, “The Timing, Luck and Lust Behind the Forming of That More Perfect Union”, in New York Times

Origin

From pre- + democratic.

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APA

predemocratic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predemocratic

MLA

“predemocratic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predemocratic. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “predemocratic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/predemocratic.

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