demonocracy

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I have heard to-day, that Lord and Lady Sheffield, who went to visit Mr. Gibbon at Lausanne, met with great trouble and impertinence at almost every post in France. in Switzerland there is a furious spirit of democracy, or demonocracy.

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  • I have heard to-day, that Lord and Lady Sheffield, who went to visit Mr. Gibbon at Lausanne, met with great trouble and impertinence at almost every post in France. in Switzerland there is a furious spirit of democracy, or demonocracy. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
 

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  1. = French démonocratie, from Greek δαίμων a demon, + -κρατἰα, government, from κρατεῑν, rule, be strong.
 

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