Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An element in some words of Greek origin, meaning ‘government,’ ‘rule,’ as in aristocracy, democracy, theocracy, etc.: also used as an English formative with the preceding vowel -o-, as in
mobocracy , or without it, as inbureaucracy (French bureaucratie).
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Words ending in "cracy" are generally forms of government, and hypocrisy isn't a form of government, it's a personal characteristic.
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Words ending in "cracy" are generally forms of government, and hypocrisy isn't a form of government
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By the time of Aristophanes, the remembrance that women had once held sway in Athens was so utterly extinct that the dramatist assures us in his Ecclesiazusoe, (The Parliament of Women) that gynecocracy was the only "cracy" which Athens had never known.
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And all we're left with is "- cracy", which is close enough for government work to
Bloodthirsty Liberal 2010
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His interpretation: Democracy comes from "demos" (Greek for people) and "cracy" (Arabic for chairs) -- the masses (or people) sitting on the chairs of power.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Libyan Media March to Beat of a Different Drummer Magda Abu-Fadil 2011
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His interpretation: Democracy comes from "demos" (Greek for people) and "cracy" (Arabic for chairs) -- the masses (or people) sitting on the chairs of power.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Libyan Media March to Beat of a Different Drummer Magda Abu-Fadil 2011
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“Demo -” means of or by the people and “- cracy” refers to rule or government.
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His interpretation: Democracy comes from "demos" (Greek for people) and "cracy" (Arabic for chairs) -- the masses (or people) sitting on the chairs of power.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Libyan Media March to Beat of a Different Drummer Magda Abu-Fadil 2011
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I'm hope you will be a great help for President Obama, because I am sick of the GOP action like cracy people.
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Of course, neither Iran nor Pakistan are exactly models for democratising if that is a word, since one ended up with a "theo"-cracy and the other with what is effectively an oligarchy.
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