Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gynecocracy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Female government; gynecocracy.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of gynecocracy.

Etymologies

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gyno- + -cracy

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Examples

  • _The Abbot_, _vi. 440_; "reigned before me," vi. 444; "my _buon camerado_," vi. 459; his use of "gynocracy," _vi.

    The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • -- [MS. erased.] [638] [Pope and Scott use the quasi-contracted "gynocracy" for

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • On both philosophical and emotional grounds, I hate paternalism in government; and I don't like maternalism in government any better, especially given that, in a number of respects, America is gradually evolving into a gynocracy anyhow.

    My political provocation Mike L 2007

  • On both philosophical and emotional grounds, I hate paternalism in government; and I don't like maternalism in government any better, especially given that, in a number of respects, America is gradually evolving into a gynocracy anyhow.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

  • Our traditions and records speak of twenty revolutions within the last twelve years, in which the aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fish-woman.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Greece, ancient groups, Kink Quotient Quiz for group sex gynecological fetish gynocracy hairbrushes hair fetish

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • Greece, ancient groups, Kink Quotient Quiz for group sex gynecological fetish gynocracy hairbrushes hair fetish

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • Greece, ancient groups, Kink Quotient Quiz for group sex gynecological fetish gynocracy hairbrushes hair fetish

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • We doubt whether the most limited gynocracy would tolerate the use of tobacco as an article of daily diet, or permit ferocious murders to go unwhipped of justice under the name of duels.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

  • Scattered examples of gynocracy are to be found in other parts of the world, and in their later development some of the Aryan races have been rather partial to women as monarchs, and striking instances of a like predilection are to be met with among the Semitic tribes, -- Boadicea,

    The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

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