barbarocracy

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin barbarus (foreigner, savage), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, foreign, strange) + -cracy.

Noun

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barbarocracy (countable and uncountable, plural barbarocracies)

  1. Rule by barbarians.
    • 1846, The Quarterly Review (London), page 314:
      The existing Bavarocracy (the Greeks, who are as fond of puns as ever, used to call it barbarocracy) had become impossible.
    • 1869, Cornelius Conway Felton, Greece, Ancient and Modern:
      I think that the reader would admit that they are better fitted to live under a constitution than under a barbarocracy, as they called the government of the irresponsible camarilla of Bavaria.
    • 1920, Rufino Blanco-Fombona, The Man of Gold, page 314:
      The President, a cruel, rapacious fellow, representing the military barbarocracy, and receiving the support of the vilest and most reactionary elements of the Republic, exercised an almost military dic tatorship rather than a civil government.
    • 2001, Jack Hall, The Spiritron Sperm and Education: A 21st Century Primer, →ISBN, page 70:
      So by nature we are the stalwarts who use their words and thoughts to bring them a barbarocracy of unparalleled freedom.