Pedantocracy

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  • n. Government by pedants.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The sway of pedants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The government, sway, or rule of a pedant or of pedants; the supremacy or power of bookish theorists; a system of government founded on mere book-learning.
  • Word Usage
    "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."
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