Definitions For Ptochocracy
Noun
{{en-noun, ptochocracies}} A society or a system ruled and dominated by the poor.Quotations
1774 - w:james burgh, james burgh s:political disquisition, political disquisition : Here we see ... two persons, the lord of the pitiful town of Newton, in the isle of Wight, and him of Old Sarum, Wiltshire, where there is not a house, send in as many members as the inestimable wealth of the city of London, in which the livery, who are the legal electors are 8,000; and the persons who ought to have votes are probably 30,000 and upwards. Here two individuals have equal weight in the state with 30,000! : ... The British government, therefore, taking it according to its avowed state, is neither absolute monarchy nor limited monarchy, nor aristocracy, nor democracy, nor a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy; by may be called a ptochocracy (the reader will pardon a new word) or government of beggars. For a few beggarly boroughs [that is, economocally deprived; many of their voters receiving alms and therefore being influenced by those on whom they depend] do avowedly elect the most important part of the government, the part which commands the purse.Antonyms
1 plutocracyEtymology
From "poverty" + κράτος, , power, might.Is Ptochocracy a Scrabble Word?
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The word Ptochocracy is worth 25 points in Scrabble and 27 points in Words with Friends