Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power or government of demons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The power or government of demons.
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- noun A
government by or of (supernatural)demons , such as the government which in some mythologies exists inHell . - noun
Democracy (when regarded as resulting in, or being no better than, government by figurative demons (i.e., evil people), or when otherwise held in contempt).
Etymologies
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demon + -ocracy (epenthetic o + -cracy). The second sense arose due to the similarity of the words demonocracy and democracy.
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Examples
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Then he thinks you know those folks are gonna get hungry and thirsty running around spreading demonocracy.
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I have heard to-day, that Lord and Lady Sheffield, who went to visit Mr. Gibbon at Lausanne, met with great trouble and impertinence at almost every post in France. in Switzerland there is a furious spirit of democracy, or demonocracy.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
whichbe commented on the word demonocracy
Government by demons or evil forces.
May 22, 2008