isocracyn.
/ʌɪˈsɒkrəsi/, U.S. /aɪˈsɑkrəsi/ Equality of power or rule; a system of government in which all the people possess equal political power.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > by all equally
isocracy1652
Pantisocracy1794
pantarchy1870
1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie vii. 12 It remaineth doubtfull, whether people who live together, may lawfully retain an Isocracie among them.
1796 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 265 There is a very seditious Spaniard there now, preaching Atheism and Isocracy.
1879 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 28 155/1 Aspirations after social isocracy, and socialism in all its protean aspects.
1895 Q. Rev. Apr. 456 A debasing isocracy, which already views with suspicion the cultivation of the highest literature as savouring of patrician insolence.
Derivatives
isocrat n. /ˈaɪsəʊkræt/ [see -crat comb. form] an advocate of isocracy.
/ˈaɪsəʊkræt/ [see -crat comb. form] an advocate of isocracy.ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism > adherent of > types of
Pantisocrat1794
Pantisocratista1822
sociocrat1858
isocrat1894
1894 Daily News 22 June 6/3 The new name which Mr. Allen suggests and Mr. Reid adopts is ‘The Isocratic Party. Isocrats we are, Isocrats let us call ourselves’.
iˈsocratize v. ? intransitive to practise isocracy.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > practise equal rule by all [verb (intransitive)] > practise isocracy
isocratizea1843
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 3/2 The young hopes and heat of Japhet may force him into a livelier interest; he should be for isocratizing.
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