landocracyn.
/lanˈdɒkrəsi/, U.S. /lænˈdɑkræsi/ jocular.
The class of people which owes its controlling position in the country to its possession of landed property.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > collectively
landlordry1598
landed interest1711
landed gentry1752
landocracy1848
landownership1867
society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners
millocracy1833
slavocracy1840
landocracy1848
1848 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 14 343 The Landocracy—in which term we comprehend all landowners great and small.
a1865 Cobden in Daily News (1869) 16 Jan. The aristocracy and landocracy and moneyocracy who govern our elections.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel II. xcviii. 173 [I felt] a deep grievance with the British landocracy.
Derivatives
ˈlandocrat n. a member of this class.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners > member of
millocrat1838
landocrat1893
1893 National Observer 23 Sept. 484/1 The wail of the landocrat is heard in the land.
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