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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] honor, worth (fr. [GREEK] to honor) + [GREEK] to govern: cf. F.

timocratie

(Gr. Antiq.)

(a)

A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

(b)

A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.

Noun.

[Gr. honor, worth, and to hold.] Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income.

timocracy ‎(plural timocracies)

(Platonism) A form of government in which ambition for honor, power and military glory motivates the rulers.
(Aristotelianism) A form of government in which civic honor or political power increases with the amount of property one owns.

form of government