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gynarchy|ˈdʒaɪnɑːkɪ, g-|
Also 6–8 gunarchy.
[f. Gr. γυν-ή woman + -αρχία, ἀρχή rule.]
Government by a woman or women.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 13/2 The gunarchie of queene Cordeilla. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 101 That in Gynarchy the wife is not subject, but superior to her husband. 1758Chesterfield Lett. (1792) IV. cccl. 159, I have always some hopes of a change under a Gunarchy; where whim and humour commonly prevail. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVII. 264/2 So will you best help to maintain..the true gynarchy. |