barbarocracy

English

Etymology

From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

Noun

barbarocracy (countable and uncountable, plural barbarocracies)

1. Rule by barbarians.
   • 1846, The Quarterly Review (London), page 314:

     The existing Bavarocracy (the Greeks, who are as fond of puns as ever, used to call it barbarocracy) had become impossible.

   • 1869, Cornelius Conway Felton, Greece, Ancient and Modern:

     I think that the reader would admit that they are better fitted to live under a constitution than under a barbarocracy, as they called the government of the irresponsible camarilla of Bavaria.

   • 1920, Rufino Blanco-Fombona, The Man of Gold, page 314:

     The President, a cruel, rapacious fellow, representing the military barbarocracy, and receiving the support of the vilest and most reactionary elements of the Republic, exercised an almost military dic tatorship rather than a civil government.

   • 2001, Jack Hall, The Spiritron Sperm and Education: A 21st Century Primer, →ISBN, page 70:

     So by nature we are the stalwarts who use their words and thoughts to bring them a barbarocracy of unparalleled freedom.