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- noun Plural form of
timocracy .
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It is a spirit hardly to be maintained without a close organisation and much training; and as military and religious timocracies have depended on discipline and a minute rule of life, so an industrial timocracy would have to depend on guilds and unions, which would make large inroads upon personal freedom.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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Xenophon, that timocracies were "according to the laws of the
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Achaeans; "since timocracies were but modified democracies.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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