papyrocracy

noun

papyrocracy

noun

Etymology From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -cracy (“rule by”).

1

Uncommon Synonym of bureaucracy: rule by excessive paperwork or regulation.

That Government, however, had a "vow in heaven" against sparing one drop of blood which the tribunals had once devoted to the altars of the Papyrocracy.1848, “Hanging, Past and Present”, in Edinburgh Magazine, number 10, Tate, page 238:

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