Definitions for timocracy

timocracy ti·moc·ra·cy

Spelling: [tahy-mok-ruh-see]
IPA: /taɪˈmɒk rə si/

Timocracy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in timocracy (accimorty).

Definitions for timocracy

noun

  1. a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
  2. a form of government in which a certain amount of property is requisite as a qualification for office.

Origin of timocracy

1580-90; earlier timocratie (Greek tīmokratía, equivalent to tīmo- (combining form of tīmḗ honor, worth) + -kratia -cracy

Examples for timocracy

The individual who answers to timocracy has some noticeable qualities.

Associated words: timocracy, timocratic, honorary, honorific.

Yes, that is the type of character which answers to timocracy.

Out of this timocracy, or timarchy, the city will next pass into an oligarchy, or government of wealth.

The constitution in the Laws is a timocracy of wealth, modified by an aristocracy of merit.

timocracy, therefore, almost invariably paved the way to democracy.

Yet the question might be asked, under what category we would place the timocracy, or government of the rich.

Between the Eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.

Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises?

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