Pedantocracy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pedantocracy is a noun meaning Government by pedants.
Meaning
Government by pedants.
Example Sentences
Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- pedantocracies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pedantocrat, pedanty, pedantism, paedocracy, academe, pedantics.
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