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Definition of Timocracy
1. n. A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.
Definition of Timocracy
1. Noun. (''Platonism'') A form of government in which ambition for honor, power and military glory motivates the rulers. ¹
2. Noun. (''Aristotelianism'') A form of government in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timocracy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Timocracy
Literary usage of Timocracy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"We have the haughty, domineering, contentious, man.3 Out of this timocracy, ...
in the timocracy, was under the dominion jjjjjjjj^j11 of energy or courage ..."
2. The Development of the Athenian Constitution by George Willis Botsford (1893)
"THE DRACONIAN timocracy. Aristotle now mentions the strife between nobles and
commons, which he says continued a long time.1 His history reveals to us the ..."
3. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"... or at least of the highest, political privileges, was sometimes called a
timocracy, and its character varied according to the standard adopted. ..."
4. A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1896)
"It is possible that, in accordance with the usual Roman principle, the franchise
was limited and the state once more a timocracy ; but the magic of its name ..."
5. A History of Greece for High Schools and Academies by George Willis Botsford (1899)
"CHAPTER III ATHENS AND SPARTA TO THE TIME OF SOLON: KINGSHIP, ARISTOCRACY, AND
timocracy (750-594 BC) WE are told in myth that the Dorians once invaded ..."
6. A History of Greece for High Schools and Academies by George Willis Botsford (1899)
"CHAPTER III ATHENS AND SPARTA TO THE TIME OF SOLON: KINGSHIP, ARISTOCRACY, AND
timocracy (750-594 BC) WE are told in myth that the Dorians once invaded ..."
7. Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1852)
"... comprised only the four lonic tribes, by the side of which there existed the
demos. Solon, however, introduced a timocracy, by instituting four classes ..."
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