democratatorship
democratatorship noun: a dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.
Noun
democratatorship (plural democratatorships)
- A dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.
- Aleph admits that Israel is trying to develop genuinely democratic institutions but, because of her compromises with ethnic religion, the new state can be described at best as a "democratura," or "democratatorship"!1954 July, Robert L[isle] Lindsey, “Israel's Coming Crisis Over "Jewishness": The Rebellion Against the Religio-Ethnic State”, in Commentary, volume 18, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The American Jewish...
- Yet such men regarded parliamentary democracy as a sham 'democratatorship' (Demokratur), believed the multi-party system had to be abolished and wanted somehow to reunify the country with the assistance of like-minded fascists abroad.2008, Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 573
Forms of democratatorship
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Origin of democratatorship
Blend of democracy + dictatorship.
Questions about democratatorship
- What does democratatorship mean?
- Democratatorship means a dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy.
- What part of speech is democratatorship?
- Democratatorship is a noun.
- What is the plural of democratatorship?
- The plural of democratatorship is democratatorships.
Words near democratatorship in the dictionary
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