英语词汇chrysocracy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	chrysocracy
词源	chrysocracy. A word that didn’t make it, even though the venerable Oliver Wendell Holmes coined it in his popular novel Elsie Venner (1861). Holmes later wrote in a letter: “In ‘Elsie Venner’ I made the word chrysocracy, thinking it would take its place; but it didn’t; plutocracy, meaning the same thing, was adopted instead. See anesthesia.
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