pedantocracy
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pedantocracy (plural pedantocracies)
- Government by pedants.
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty[1], page 148:
- ... 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.