predemocratic
adjEtymology From pre- + democratic.
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Before democracy.
- 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.2007 November 27, Michiko Kakutani, “The Timing, Luck and Lust Behind the Forming of That More Perfect Union”, in New York Times: