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isonomy|aɪˈsɒnəmɪ|
[ad. It. isonomia ‘equalitie of laws to all manner of persons’ (Florio, 1598), perh. also in 16th c. L., a. Gr. ἰσονοµία, n. of quality from ἰσόνοµος having equal political rights, f. ἰσο-, iso- + νόµος law. Frequent in 17th c.; obs. in 18th; used again in 19th.]
Equality of laws, or of people before the law; equality of political rights among the citizens of a state.
1600Holland Livy iii. xxxix. 114 The successive change and course of bearing rule, the only thing that maketh Isonomie, and equalitie of freedome. Ibid. lxvii. 134 Under the pretence and colour of Isonomie, or equall and indifferent lawes. Ibid. xxxviii. l. 1016 Nothing preserveth isonomie in a citie, & mainteineth equall libertie more. 1659Quaeries on Proposalls Officers Armie to Parlt. 8 Every one pretending to equality and Isonomy, lifteth up and advanceth himself whilst he shoveth at, and thrusteth down others. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lv. 155 They who prefer a Popular State have dignifi'd it with the most agreeable and specious Title of Isonomie. 1856J. H. Newman Office & Work Universities vii. 123 The Athenians felt that a democracy was but the political expression of an intellectual isonomy. 1882W. Cary Mod. Eng. Hist. II. 272 To regulate the many varieties of man..in..Eastern Europe on the principle of isonomy. |