pantisocracy

pantisocracy
noun (plural -cies) Etymology: pant- + isocracy equal rule, from Greek isokratia, from is- + -kratia -cracy Date: 1794 a utopian community in which all rule equally • pantisocratic or pantisocratical adjectivepantisocratist noun

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  • Pantisocracy — Pan ti*soc ra*cy, n. [Panto + Gr. ? equal + ? to rule.] A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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