pedantocracy

English

Etymology

pedant +‎ -cracy

Noun

pedantocracy (plural pedantocracies)

  1. Government by pedants.
    • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty‎, page 148:
      ... if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.

See also
  • Appendix:Forms of government
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