单词 | slavocracy |
释义 | slavocracyn. The domination of slave-holders; slave-holders collectively as a dominant or powerful class. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners millocracy1833 slavocracy1840 landocracy1848 1840 Illinois State Reg. (Springfield) 22 Jan. 2/2 The reign of the slaveocracy is hastening to a close. 1848 N.Y. Express 4 Sept. An exhortation to curb the slaveocracy. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiv. 526 Union means a submission to the old slavocracy. 1896 E. B. Gordon Biogr. A. J. Gordon 68 The devouring indignation against the slavocracy which possessed the soul of Theodore Parker. Derivatives ˈslavocrat n. a member of the slavocracy. ΚΠ 1842 S. M. Gates Let. 24 Jan. in J. G. Birney Lett. (1938) II. 666 Some Slaveocrats in Georgia have lately attempted to cast odium upon Mr. Adams. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 413. 1882 H. von Holst J. C. Calhoun ix. 308 The slavocrats..were not such doctrinaires as to risk their bones in charging windmills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1840 |
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