graocracy en · NOUN
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γραῦς (graûs, “old woman”) + -ocracy.
Meanings
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(archaic, no-plural, rare) A government led by old women or old men.
And such, we are fully persuaded, will be the sentiments of every ancient dame in the British empire, who shall read the account we shall now give of the vaunted bonne Societé, under Madame de Genlis's admired and lamented graocracy.
1830 March 14, “Madame De Genlis”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVII, number CLXIV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, via Internet Archive, page 484:And now that old women have been added to the legislature, so that our gerontocracy is reinforced by a graocracy of middle-aged and old women like Lady Rhondda, Lady Astor, Lady Frances Balfour, and Mrs. Betrand Russel, the advent of increased restraints upon the young of both sexes is a certainty.
1927, Anthony M. Ludovici, “The More Remote Causes of Modern Male Degeneracy—Part I”, in Man: An Indictment, London: Constable & Co LTD, via Internet Archive, page 303:I am sure not one of you means to go into the pulpit as the spokesman of the graocracy, or to secure a contemptible and partial success by offering rancid incense to popular ignorance and hatred and prejudice.
1898 March 26, “Aeschylus as a Preacher of Righteousness”, in Queen's University Journal, volume XXV, number 10, Kingston, Canada: Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, via Internet Archive, page 151: