isonomy

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She was a genuine democrat; and nothing short of the pure isonomy of the Greeks was tolerated in her political philosophy, though she could not have told what such a word had meant for her life.

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  1. Equality as regards rights and privileges; isonomia. Philolaus … introduced an isonomy into the oligarchy, and so enabled it to hold its ground. Von Ranke, Univ. Hist. (trans.), p. 135.

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  1. from Greek ἰσονομία, equal distribution, equality of rights or laws, from ἰσόνομος, equally distributed, having equal rights, from ἴσος, equal, + νόμος, distribution, custom, law: see nome.
 

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