Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A state described by Plato as being governed on principles of honor and military glory.
- n. An Aristotelian state in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A form of government in which a certain amount of property is requisite as a qualification for Office. The word has also been used for a government in which the ruling class, composed of the noblest and most honorable citizens, struggle for preëminence among themselves.
Wiktionary
- n. Platonism A form of government in which ambition for honor, power and military glory motivates the rulers.
- n. A form of government in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.
- n. A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin timocratia, from Greek tīmokratíā, from tīmē valuation; honor + -kratíā a rule, reign, from krateîn to rule (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete French tymocracie, from Medieval Latin tīmocratia, from Greek tīmokratiā : tīmē, honor, value + -kratiā, -cracy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The four types of state as we know them in Hellas, are: the Spartan, where personal ambition and honour rule, which we call timocracy; the oligarchical, where wealth rules; the democratic; and the arbitrary rule of the individual, which we call tyranny.”
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“Thus arises timocracy, which is intermediate between aristocracy and oligarchy.”
“Aristotle's mode of using words, would have been called a timocracy; and this in some cities, as at Athens, became the conducting medium to democracy.”
“-- The government of Athens, framed by Solon, was in effect a "timocracy," or rule of the rich.”
“Sometimes this oligarchical government gave way to a government based upon a qualification of property, which, according to Aristotle’s mode of using words, would have been called a timocracy; and this in some cities, as at Athens, became the conducting medium to democracy.”
“As countries went, England was already among the most democratic and the government the rebels formed was a timocracy (not that bad in my book, but worth noting to democratic fundamentalists).”
“As countries went, England was already among the most democratic and the government the rebels formed was a timocracy not that bad in my book, but worth noting to democratic fundamentalists.”
“The founding fathers created a timocracy in which most did not have the right to vote.”
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“He contrasts the ideal city, in which the wise rule, and two would-be aristocracies, the timocracy in which the militaristically”
“Even the timocracy and oligarchy, for all their flaws, have public standards for value.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘timocracy’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Forms of government
tyranny, tribal, totalitarianism, timocracy, theocracy, thallassocracy, cyberocracy, technocracy, sociocracy, socialist state, republic, puppet state and 37 more...
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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ElRojo
R. Peter Jackson's list
cantillation, jackstaff, pullulate, whoremonger, colloquy, batman, anathema, idiosyncratic, facilitation, sympathy, empathy, satrap and 134 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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list-ocracy
and some -archy ones, too.
technocracy, plutocracy, ochlocracy, theocracy, kakistocracy, stratocracy, democracy, autocracy, aristocracy, pantisocracy, timocracy, bureaucracy and 30 more...
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Wikipedia's List of Government Types
anarchy, aristocracy, authoritarianism, autocracy, confederation, corporatocracy, consociationalism, demarchy, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, epistemocracy and 36 more...
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Crazy "-Cracy"
Words that end in the suffix "-cracy", which therefore means that the word represents a form of government.
kakistocracy, meritocracy, gynecocracy, hagiocracy, corporatocracy, timocracy, gerontocracy, ethnocracy, sociocracy, kritocracy, thalassocracy, ochlocracy and 64 more...
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My Favorite Words
List of my favorite words.
psychedelic, paroxysm, brazen, pragmatic, albeit, asinine, lucubratory, ominous, verisimilitude, vicissitude, timocracy, plutocracy and 13 more...
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The Government Totally Sucks
With all due respect to Tenacious D for the title.
jamahiriya, apartheid, autocratic, plutocracy, theocracy, aristocracy, logocracy, republic, dictator, fascist, meritocracy, tribe and 22 more...
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Tweets
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seanahan Or, for the super nerdy, government by those who ping you for one damage. Sep 27, 2007
yarb Rule by people called Tim. Sep 26, 2007