Definition of Timocracies

1. Noun. (plural of timocracy) ¹

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Definition of Timocracies

1. timocracy [n] - See also: timocracy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timocracies

timidly
timidness
timidnesses
timidous
timing
timing belt
timing belts
timing is everything
timings
timist
timists
timmer
timmers
timnodonic
timnodonic acid
timocracies (current term)
timocracy
timocrat
timocratic
timocratical
timocrats
timolol
timolol maleate
timolols
timon
timoneer
timoneers
timons
timophilia
timorous

Literary usage of Timocracies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Athens, Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1852)
"That the Achaean governments were democracies appears suffi ciently evident; nor is this at variance with the remark of Xenophon. that timocracies were ..."

2. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"It is a spirit hardly to be maintained without a close organisation and much training; and as military and religious timocracies have depended on discipline ..."

3. The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of by William Thomas Arnold (1879)
"Under the Empire timocracies seem to have been everywhere established. Only those possessing a certain income were permitted the full 1 Plin. Ep. x. 56. ..."

4. The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of by William Thomas Arnold (1906)
"... at all events up to quite the end of the Republic.2 Under the Empire timocracies seem to have been everywhere established.3 Only those possessing a ..."

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