gyneocracyn.
/ɡʌɪnɪˈɒkrəsi//dʒʌɪnɪˈɒkrəsi//dʒɪnɪˈɒkrəsi/ rare.
= gynaecocracy n.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of women
gynarchy1587
gyneocracy1611
gynaecocracy1612
petticoat government1699
gynocracy1728
Amazonianism1826
Amazonism1828
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 571/2 The..law..which they call the Salick, by the which the French exclude Gyneiocracie [‘Faults escaped’: Gynœocratie], or Womens Gouernment in chiefe.
1869 E. Lynn Linton Ourselves 176 In the gyneocracy of the future,—that new moral world which is to be under woman's undivided sway.
1881 L. H. Morgan Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. 66 The mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois.
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