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pedantocracies

pedantocracies is the plural of pedantocracy.

Meaning of pedantocracy

Noun

pedantocracy (countable and uncountable, plural pedantocracies)

  1. Government by pedants.
    • […] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148

Questions about pedantocracies

What is pedantocracies the plural of?
Pedantocracies is the plural of pedantocracy.

Words near pedantocracies in the dictionary

  1. pedantize
  2. pedantized
  3. pedantizes
  4. pedantizing
  5. pedantly
  6. pedantocracies
  7. pedantocracy
  8. pedantocrat
  9. pedantocratic
  10. pedantocrats
  11. pedantries

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