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protocratic

protocratic adjective: pertaining to an initial or original form of social control.

Adjective

protocratic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an initial or original form of social control.
    • In the drives of war and revolution protocratic rule broadens into sovereignty: "the domiant human power, individual or pluralistic, in a politically organized and politically independent population."1922, Franklin Henry Giddings, Studies in the Theory of Human Society, page 276
    • People usually are not ignorant from choice; but often they are uninformed if clarifying facts are inaccessible or deliberately withheld from them by protocratic minorities.1940, Douglas Gilbert Haring, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Order and Possibility in Social Life, page 422

Noun

protocratic (uncountable)

  1. The first stage of interglacial forest development (Pre-Temperate), characterized by light-demanding species and rapid changes in vegetation.
    • Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229
    • These shade-tolerant and relatively long-lived trees soon compete out the protocratic communities.1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 9

Examples of protocratic in a sentence

  • All day and all night God's protocratic forces, the angelic enforcers of heaven, are ministering on the saints' behalf, Church.2021, Apostle Magnolia M. Edwards, Binding the Strongman:
  • The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:

Questions about protocratic

What does protocratic mean?
Protocratic means pertaining to an initial or original form of social control.
How do you use protocratic in a sentence?
All day and all night God's protocratic forces, the angelic enforcers of heaven, are ministering on the saints' behalf, Church.
What part of speech is protocratic?
Protocratic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near protocratic in the dictionary

  1. protoconversations
  2. protocooperation
  3. protocooperative
  4. protocorm
  5. protocorms
  6. protocratic
  7. protocristid
  8. protocristids
  9. protoctist
  10. protoctistan
  11. protoctistans

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