Pedantocracy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Government by pedants. countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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."

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"[…] 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."

Etymology

From pedant + -ocracy.

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