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paedocracy
paedocracy n. 
/piˈdɑkrəsi/ [ < paedo- comb. form + -cracy comb. form] = paedarchy n.
Brit. /piːˈdɒkrəsi/
, /piːˈdɒkrəsi/U.S. /pəˈdɑkrəsi/
, /pəˈdɑkrəsi//piˈdɑkrəsi/ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of child or children
paedocracy1647
paedarchy1831
1647 J. Noyes Temple Measured 34 Some are..unseasonable, ignorant, youthful. This is a Pedocracy as well as a Democracy.
1898 tr. M. Busch Bismarck III. 144 Bucher then complained of the ‘gross ineptitude’ displayed by Gerhard Rohlfs in his mission to Zanzibar. ‘He got it’, he said, ‘through the “paidocracy”, as Busch calls it,—through the influence of the Chancellor's sons upon their father.’
2000 Australian (Nexis) 9 Aug. b4 Down with Paedocracy. Can anyone explain to me why it is that the combining of the word young with that of the word writer should be the cause of such great excitement?
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