pantisocracy

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He felt himself constrained to eliminate utterly from his conscience whatever traces of early republicanism, pantisocracy, and heresy still disfigured it; and to conform unreservedly to the exactest requirements of high Toryism in politics and high Churchism in religion.

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  1. A utopian community in which all the members are equal in rank and social position.
  2. The principle of such a scheme or community. This scheme was advocated by Southey, Coleridge, and Lovell about 1794. All are not moralists, like Southey, when He prated to the world of Pantisocrasy. Byron, Don Juan, iii. 93. It was all a poet's dream, hardly more substantial, though more exertions were used to realize it, than the dream entertained by Coleridge, Southey, and Lovell, of establishing pantisocracy on the banks of the Susquehanna. Quarterly Rev.

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  • Then soon he had the widowed Mrs. Lovell with her brood on his hands, and his old dream of pantisocracy was realized, only not just as he expected. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
  • Then soon he had the widowed Mrs. Lovell with her brood on his hands, and his old dream of pantisocracy was realized, only not just as he expected Too much can not be said for the patience and unflinching fidelity shown by Southey in shouldering the burdens that Fate sent him Any man can succeed with three good women to help him!" —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
  • He felt himself constrained to eliminate utterly from his conscience whatever traces of early republicanism, pantisocracy, and heresy still disfigured it; and to conform unreservedly to the exactest requirements of high Toryism in politics and high Churchism in religion. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858
  • 515_; Hazlitt on, _iv. 518_; the result of pantisocracy, _iv. 521_; on Southey's —  The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
  • For pantisocracy he once had cried [558] —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
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  1. from Greek πᾶς (παν-), all, + ισος, equal, + κρατεῖν, rule.
 

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