pedantocracy

English

Etymology

From pedant +‎ -cracy.

Noun

pedantocracy (plural pedantocracies)

1. Government by pedants.
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty‎^[1], 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