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infantocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From infant + -o- + -cracy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Rule by children.
   • Well, it took a long time to dispose of our new fellow-travellers, for your infantocracy is the most absolute government under the sun. 1862, Dinah Maria Mulock, Domestic Stories by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman, page 253:
   • The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy. 1968, Frederick C. Crews, The Patch Commission, page 25:
   • In Kundera's unsentimental vision, moreover, children serve as emblems of the mindless "infantocracy" overtaking contemporary culture in both East and West. 1992, The Journal of Narrative Technique, volumes 22-23, page 87:

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Synonyms

kindergarchy · paedocracy