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Definition of Gerontocracies
1. gerontocracy [n] - See also: gerontocracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gerontocracies
Literary usage of Gerontocracies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universities and Scientific Life in the United States by Maurice Caullery, James Haughton Woods, Emmet Russell (1922)
"... resolutely and methodically — all her institutions, including the scientific,
paying no consideration to the inertia of conservative gerontocracies. ..."
2. Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, G by A[rthur] Patchett Martin (1893)
"During the time of his Chancellorship of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe received an
honour which, despite his attacks on ' clerical gerontocracies ' and the ..."
3. Fear and Conventionality by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1914)
"Very primitive societies like the Australian are indeed absolute gerontocracies.
Their only government is a council of the Elders. ..."
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