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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gynocracy

/(jĭ*nŏk"rȧ*sy̆)/ · Gy·noc·ra·cy · IPA
01 n. Female government; gynecocracy.
  1. 1.
    Female government; gynecocracy.
    “The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman.” Sir W. Scott.