predemocratic

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English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ democratic.

Adjective

predemocratic (not comparable)

  1. Before democracy.
    • 2007 November 27, Michiko Kakutani, “The Timing, Luck and Lust Behind the Forming of That More Perfect Union”, in New York Times:
      Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite.