Word Meanings - SLAVOCRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.

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• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• WIELD
  gewyldan, from wealdan; akin to OS. waldan, OFries. walda, G. walten, OHG. waltan, Icel. valda, Sw. vålla to occasion, to cause, Dan. volde, Goth. waldan to govern, rule, L. valere to be strong. Cf. 1. To govern; to rule; to keep, or
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• WIELDLESS
  Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy. "Wieldless might." Spenser.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• WIELDY
  Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy. Johnson.
• WIELDER
  One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• COSMOPOLITICAL
  Having the character of a cosmopolite. Hackluyt.
• SELF-INTERESTED
  Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.