pantisocracy

/ (ˌpæntɪˈsɒkrəsɪ) /

noun

a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal

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Word Origin for pantisocracy

C18 (coined by Robert Southey): from Greek, from panto- + isos equal + -cracy

Words nearby pantisocracy

pantie, pantie girdle, panties, pantihose, pantile, pantisocracy, pant leg, panto, pantofle, pantograph, pantology

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Example sentences from the Web for pantisocracy

Southey lost faith in Pantisocracy and went to live with his mother.
Coleridge|Samuel Levy Bensusan
Pantisocracy was indeed a happy episode for English literature.
Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle|H. N. Brailsford
In early manhood Coleridge planned a Pantisocracy where all the virtues were to thrive.
Obiter Dicta|Augustine Birrell
Rousseau and Coleridge convert the scheme of emigration into the project of Pantisocracy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851|Various

Pantisocracy is not the question: its realization is distant—perhaps a miraculous millennium.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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