timocratic
- 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, 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 Dill, Samuel
At Athens, Solon gave the popular courts a jurisdiction only in civil suits; all criminal cases were decided by the timocratic Areopagus, and the aristocratic Ephetæ.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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 Jowett, Benjamin
