Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A utopian community in which all the members are equal in rank and social position.
- noun The principle of such a scheme or community. This scheme was advocated by Southey, Coleridge, and Lovell about 1794.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.
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- noun A
utopian social system in which every member participates equally in government.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eager for adventure, he joined Southey and Lloyd in their scheme of pantisocracy, to which we have already referred; and when that failed for want of money, he married the sister-in-law of Southey -- Miss Fricker, of Bristol.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Then soon he had the widowed Mrs. Lovell with her brood on his hands, and his old dream of pantisocracy was realized, only not just as he expected.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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And a little earlier than this, when meditating his pantisocracy scheme with Southey and Lovell, he had addressed the dead poet in his indignant
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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Then soon he had the widowed Mrs. Lovell with her brood on his hands, and his old dream of pantisocracy was realized, only not just as he expected.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Hospital and Cambridge, enlists 1794 but bought off, became intimate with Southey, and proposes to found pantisocracy, settles at Clevedon and Nether Stowey 1795, and became friend of
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“pantisocracy” on the banks of the Susquehanna, a scheme which speedily fell through, owing firstly to want of funds, and secondly to the circumstance of the two projectors falling in love simultaneously with two sisters, Sarah and Edith Fricker, of whom the former became, in 1795, the wife of C., and the latter of
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515_; Hazlitt on, _iv. 518_; the result of pantisocracy, _iv. 521_; on Southey's
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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'pantisocracy,' for having all things, including women, in common
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
bilby commented on the word pantisocracy
Don't get your pantisocracy in a twist!
December 4, 2023