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infantocracy

infantocracy noun: rule by children.

Noun

infantocracy (countable and uncountable, plural infantocracies)

  1. Rule by children.
    • Well, it took a long time to dispose of our new fellow-travellers, for your infantocracy is the most absolute government under the sun.1862, Dinah Maria Mulock, Domestic Stories by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman, page 253
    • The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.1968, Frederick C. Crews, The Patch Commission, page 25

Synonyms of infantocracy

Forms of infantocracy

pluralinfantocracies

Origin of infantocracy

From infant + -o- + -cracy.

Words that rhyme with infantocracy

38 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about infantocracy

What does infantocracy mean?
Infantocracy means rule by children.
What part of speech is infantocracy?
Infantocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of infantocracy?
The plural of infantocracy is infantocracies.

Words near infantocracy in the dictionary

  1. infantizes
  2. infantizing
  3. infantlike
  4. infantly
  5. infantocracies
  6. infantocracy
  7. infantometer
  8. infantometers
  9. infantophile
  10. infantophiles
  11. infantophilia

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