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Definition of timocracy in English English dictionary
- A form of government in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns
- A form of government in which ambition for honor, power and military glory motivates the rulers
- A government of honorable people
- A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property
- A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive
- timocratic
- Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy
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ti·moc·ra·cyPronunciation
Etymology
() timocratia tīmokratíā tīmē valuation; honor + -kratíā a rule, reign krateîn to ruleResimler
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