timocracy
noun
a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
timocratic
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a word derived from
timocracy.
Example Sentences
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Since old Mrs. Wyler belongs to the timocratic generation, and was once a friend of the elder Rockefellers, the money causes her no psychological distress.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John W. Mackay had amassed the kind of money that starts timocratic dynasties.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there is obviously no connection between the manner in which the timocratic State springs out of the ideal, and the mere accident by which the timocratic man is the son of a retired statesman.
From The Republic by Benjamin Jowett
Solon introduced a new principle of classification—called in Greek the "timocratic principle."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
But, unlike our civic republics, the Roman municipal town was distinctly aristocratic, or rather timocratic, in its constitution.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
