单词 | pollarchy |
释义 | pollarchyn. Chiefly Politics. Now rare. Rule or government by the masses; (also) the masses as a ruling body or political force. Cf. mobocracy n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of the mob ochlocratia1584 ochlocracy1594 mob government1703 mobocracy1754 mob law1809 mob-rule1837 pollarchy1853 1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 337 Democracy became a synonym for—what would have been more properly termed a pollarchy—the government of the many. 1862 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South II. 340 A contest..between those representing the oligarchical principle and the pollarchy. 1881 Academy 15 Oct. 287 Pollarchy..if used with circumspection would raise any rural person. 1911 Times 4 Feb. 6/1 Your pampered pollarchy is incapable of declaring war, and all that you are good for, after the event, is war-demagogism à la Caius Flaminius. 1966 D. Dunnett Disorderly Knights (1997) iii. 484 I am here,..a refugee from pollarchy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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