kratocracy en · NOUN
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos, “strength, might”) + -cracy.
Meanings
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A government established by the forceful or cunning seizure of power and maintained by strength.
To many outside observers, Turkey is a unique country that seems perpetually balancing on a steep precipice between kratocracy and democracy, between Islam and capitalism, or even more melodramatically, between East and West.
2012, Cory Blad, Banu Koçer, Political Islam and State Legitimacy in Turkey: The Role of National Culture in Neoliberal State-Building in International Political Sociology, volume 6, page 36[…] as the cover for plutocracy is replaced by timocracy and by the one-man kratocracy which we call dictatorship.
1950, Wm. Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, page 109:For, without its feeling of compassion, a kratocracy, […]
In Praise of a Roman-American Rhapsody in 2013 (originally 1997), Francis Boni, A Life Song Between Two Worlds: Revised and Expanded, iUniverse LLC, page 37
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kratocracies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (1)
id kratokrasi (rule by the strong)