gyneocracy rare.
(dʒaɪ-, dʒɪnɪˈɒkrəsɪ, g-)
Also 7 gynœocratie, (gyneiocracie).
[f. Gr. γυνή woman + -ocracy.]
Incorrect form for gynæcocracy.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §47 The..law..which they call the Salick, by the which the French exclude Gyneiocracie [in list of ‘Faults escaped’ altered to Gynœocratie], or Womens Gouernement in chiefe. 1869 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Ourselves 176 In the gyneocracy of the future,—that new moral world which is to be under woman's undivided sway. 1881 L. H. Morgan Contrib. Amer. Ethnol. 66 The mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois. |