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predemocratic

adj

Etymology

From pre- + democratic.

  1. derived from *kret-✻ — “insight, intelligence; strength”
  2. derived from *deh₂-✻ — “to divide; to share”
  3. derived from δημοκρᾰτῐκός — “of or for democracy; favouring or suited for democracy”
  4. derived from democraticus — “pertaining to democracy, democratic; democrat”
  5. derived from democratique — “pertaining to democracy, democratic”
  6. prefixed as predemocratic — “pre + democratic”

Definitions

  1. Before democracy.

    • Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite.

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