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juvenocratic

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Etymology

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From juveno- +‎ -cratic.

Adjective

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juvenocratic (comparative more juvenocratic, superlative most juvenocratic)

  1. Of or relating to juvenocracy.
    • 1969, Lewis S. Feuer, The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements, New York, N.Y: Basic Books, Inc., →LCCN, pages 29–30:
      Without excesses or defects, they combine the valuable qualities of youth and old age. The mind at the age of forty-five was Aristotle’s happiest mean. It was then, as we would say today, most free from ideology, of either the juvenocratic or gerontocratic kind.