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pedantocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From pedant + -ocracy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Government by pedants.
   • […] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind. 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148:
   • Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims. 1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull Publications), Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: […] [F]or the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186:

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