oligarchically love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By an oligarchy; after the methods of an oligarchy.

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  • adverb In an oligarchical way.

Etymologies

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oligarchic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • While the benefits of the capital inflows are shared 'oligarchically', the costs of the crisis are shared 'democratically', with immediate impacts on the poor and on the middle class which had taken on lots of debt during good times.

    ANC Today 2004

  • While the benefits of the capital inflows are shared 'oligarchically', the costs of the crisis are shared 'democratically', with immediate impacts on the poor and on the middle class which had taken on lots of debt during good times.

    ANC Today 2004

  • Right, left - Russia is completely oligarchically capitalist now.

    [contessa brewer] has no problem being called a slut 2009

  • Further, states oligarchically governed are forced to ratify their alliances and solemn oaths, and if they fail to abide by their contracts, the offence, by whomsoever committed,72 lies nominally at the door of the oligarchs who entered upon the contract.

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

  • The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution, if the laws are democratical, democratically or oligarchically, if the laws are oligarchical.

    Politics Aristotle 2002

  • As part of the English system, as a true believer in the oligarchically administered monarchy,

    Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878

  • Further, states oligarchically governed are forced to ratify their alliances and solemn oaths, and if they fail to abide by their contracts, the offence, by whomsoever committed, (21) lies nominally at the door of the oligarchs who entered upon the contract.

    Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • Chiefly, the oligarchically inclined powers of the modern world, then as now, especially the financial oligarchy typified by Venice, still, to the present day, like their medieval and ancient predecessors, fear nothing as much as the very existence of the leaders in any nation who admire a constitution which converges on the intention of our own republican form of Federal Constitution.

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • For more than 45 years, liberal judges have been re-writing the Constitution so that during times when Democrats didn't have super filibuster-proof majorities in Congress, the liberal agenda could be imposed oligarchically via five lawyers.

    The Minority Report - 2009

  • So there are in fact five kinds of pure psychological constitutions: aristocratically constituted persons (those ruled by their rational attitudes), timocratically constituted persons (those ruled by their spirited attitudes), oligarchically constituted persons (ruled by necessary appetitive attitudes), democratically constituted persons (ruled by unnecessary appetitive attitudes), and tyrannically constituted persons (ruled by lawless appetitive attitudes).

    Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

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