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kritocracy

kritocracy is the alternative form of critocracy.

Meaning of critocracy

Noun

critocracy (plural critocracies)

  1. A system of rule by judges.
    • In the United States it may be called a Plutarchy or pure rule of money with a Critocracy or government by Judges because through the complicated machinery of checks and balances in the Constitution to prevent the people's rule ...1912, Herman Isidore Stern, A Socialist Catechism, page 52
  2. A system of rule by critics.
    • Literature and the literary critocracy have an advantage over the visual arts, they can be read and enjoyed at leisure in direct and frequent contact with the author; but for paintings, sculpture and architecture we have to get up and go […]1962, Motif: A Journal of the Visual Arts, volume 9, page 1

Forms of kritocracy

pluralkritocracies

Questions about kritocracy

What is kritocracy the alternative form of?
Kritocracy is the alternative form of critocracy.

Words near kritocracy in the dictionary

  1. kritik
  2. Kritikos
  3. Kritikoses
  4. kritiks
  5. kritocracies
  6. kritocracy
  7. kritrima
  8. Krittika
  9. Kritz
  10. Kritzer
  11. Kritzers

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