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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”).
Noun
dulocracy (countable and uncountable, plural dulocracies)
- A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.
1855, Jam. Gord Bennett, Memoirs of Jam. Gord. Bennett and his Times: By a Journalist:Or must the country passively submit to that dulocracy in politics which has become a stigma upon the nation, and a shame to the intelligence of the people?
1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 165:In a dulocracy who are the slaves?
2006, Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak, NGOs, Activists & Foreign Funds: Anti-nation Industry, page 145:Manderians are not democrats; they are dulocrats, and the Manderweb symbolises our dulocracy. So, are you surprised that the dulocracy rules our country […] A dulocracy is "a Government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer" (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edn), […]
Further reading
- N Bailey (1721) “DULOCRACY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: , London: E. Bell, J. Darby, , →OCLC, column 2.
- “dulocracy”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.