Robinocracy

Noun

Robinocracy (uncountable)

1. Rule by British statesman Robert Walpole (1676–1745), especially between 1721 and 1742 when he is regarded as the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
   • London’s famous opening lines, in which the disenchanted Thales recalls the lost pride of Elizabethan England (“In pleasing Dreams the blissful Age renew / And call Britannia’s Glories back to view,” lines 5–6), combines the heady mood of moral indignation and patriotic nostalgia characteristic of...2001, Christine Gerrard, “Political passions”, in John Sitter, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51
   • The patriot opposition within the Whig party to Robert Walpole’s Robinocracy shared common ground with the Tories in looking back to the Saxon constitution as a symbol of the constitutional balance that Walpole’s oligarchy had upset.2004, Rosemary Sweet, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain, London; New York, N.Y.: Hambledon and London, →ISBN, page 248