Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The government, sway, or rule of a pedant or of pedants; the supremacy or power of bookish theorists; a system of government founded on mere book-learning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The sway of pedants.
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- noun Government by
pedants .
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Examples
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A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
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If we would possess permanently a skilful and efficient body of functionariesabove all, a body able to originate and willing to adopt improvements; 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.
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If we would possess permanently a skilful and efficient body of functionariesabove all, a body able to originate and willing to adopt improvements; 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. 22
V. Applications 1869
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A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839
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a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.
On Liberty 2002
qms commented on the word pedantocracy
And Sanders decries our plutocracy,
But fears in me linger
From his wagging finger
That Bernie supports pedantocracy.
August 30, 2018