Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Organized on the basis of descent in the female line and governed by woman or by her male relatives; matriarchal.
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For the adjectival forms androcratic and gynecocratic, and for similar locutions, we generally use "Men's-State" and "Women's-State," with a hyphen to indicate that the significance is adjectival.
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The theory persists to-day as a vestige from a past epoch -- much as, according to Gray, there is still to be found in androcratic China a gynecocratic oasis where the ancient dominance of women has been preserved without change.
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