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infantocracy

noun

Etymology

From infant + -o- + -cracy.

  1. derived from enfanter
  2. borrowed from īnfantem
  3. inherited from infaunt
  4. formed as infantocracy — “infant + -o- + -cracy”

Definitions

  1. Rule by children.

    • Well, it took a long time to dispose of our new fellow-travellers, for your infantocracy is the most absolute government under the sun.
    • The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.
    • In Kundera's unsentimental vision, moreover, children serve as emblems of the mindless "infantocracy" overtaking contemporary culture in both East and West.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA