dulocracy

English

Alternative forms

• doulocracy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”).

Noun

dulocracy (countable and uncountable, plural dulocracies)

1. A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.
   • 1855, Jam. Gord Bennett, Memoirs of Jam. Gord. Bennett and his Times: By a Journalist‎^[1]:

     Or must the country passively submit to that dulocracy in politics which has become a stigma upon the nation, and a shame to the intelligence of the people?

   • 1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 165:

     In a dulocracy who are the slaves?

   • 2006, Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak, NGOs, Activists & Foreign Funds: Anti-nation Industry‎^[2], page 145:

     Manderians are not democrats; they are dulocrats, and the Manderweb symbolises our dulocracy. So, are you surprised that the dulocracy rules our country […] A dulocracy is "a Government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer" (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edn), […]

Related terms

• dulocrat
• dulosis

Further reading

• N[athan] Bailey (1721) “DULOCRACY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2.
• “dulocracy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.