predemocratic

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ democratic

Adjective

predemocratic (not comparable)

1. Before democracy.
   • 2007 November 27, Michiko Kakutani, “The Timing, Luck and Lust Behind the Forming of That More Perfect Union”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite.