timarchyn.
/ˈtʌɪmɑːki/ rare.
= timocracy n.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of rich people
timocracy1586
plutocracy1631
plutarchy1643
timarchy1643
chrysocracy1828
plousiocracy1839
chryso-aristocracy1858
plutogogy1894
plutodemocracy1895
1643 Maximes Unfolded 4 That they all be present.., his Majestie as the heire of the Kingdome, his Peeres by their Birth, and the Commons by the peoples Election. The first sheweth a Monarchie, the second an Aristocracie, and the third a Timarchie.
1643 Maximes Unfolded 5 Timarchy, or Plutarchy, is when great men of meanes, wanting the honour of Peeres,..have the dignity of Gravity and discretion to make them reputed, and to be well esteemed amongst the people.
1643 Maximes Unfolded 28 When the best in wealth and estates governe the poore, it is called Plutarchie, the Empire of riches, or Timocracie, the command of honour, which is also named Timarchie.
1852 Davies & Vaughan tr. Plato Republic (1858) 307 We will begin on the present occasion by examining the ambitious constitution—(I do not know of any other name in use; we must call it Timocracy or Timarchy).
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