predemocratic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pre- + democratic.
Adjective
[edit]predemocratic (not comparable)
- Before democracy.
- 2007 November 27, Michiko Kakutani, “The Timing, Luck and Lust Behind the Forming of That More Perfect Union”, in New York Times[1]:
- Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite.