Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to pantisocracy: as, pantisocratic scheme.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
pantisocracy .
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Examples
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Southey, who had come under the influence of Rousseau, was initiated by Coleridge into Godwin's theories, and in their utopian enthusiasm they formed the design of founding a "pantisocratic" settlement in America, to show how happiness could be realised in a social environment in which duty and interest coincide and consequently all are virtuous.
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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Despite the group's efforts to raise money and interest in the scheme, the pantisocratic project continued to be fraught with continual difficulties and differences in opinion about how next to proceed.
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Delaware, to found millennial societies and pantisocratic unions.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre John Morley 1880
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Cambridge He had by this time imbibed extreme democratic or, as he termed them, pantisocratic principles, and on leaving Cambridge in the same year he visited Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of
chained_bear commented on the word pantisocratic
"...the politics being of the Utopian pantisocratic kind and the religion a sort of misty Deism..."
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 56
March 13, 2008