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cacistocracy

cacistocracy is the alternative spelling of kakistocracy.

Meaning of kakistocracy

Noun

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

  1. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
    • Therefore we need not make any scruple of praying against […] those restlesse spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and medling; who are stung with a perpetuall itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old Hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this againe into a newer...1644, Paul Gosnold, A sermon preached at the publique fast the ninth day of Aug. 1644 at St. Maries, Oxford, Early English Books Online

Forms of cacistocracy

pluralcacistocracies

Questions about cacistocracy

What is cacistocracy the alternative spelling of?
Cacistocracy is the alternative spelling of kakistocracy.

Words near cacistocracy in the dictionary

  1. caciqueship
  2. caciqueships
  3. caciquism
  4. caciquismo
  5. cacistocracies
  6. cacistocracy
  7. cack
  8. cack on
  9. cack up
  10. cack-handed
  11. cack-handedly

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