theocracy

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noun

Plural noun:

theocracies

1.
(countable, uncountable)Government under the control of a state religion.
Near-synonym: clericocracy
Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama prior to Chinese annexation.
The Vatican City State is a sovereign city-state and a Christian theocracy ruled by the Pope.
Đồng nghĩa: clericocracy
2.
(countable, uncountable)Rule by a god.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.

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Đồng nghĩa

clericocracy

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theocrat theocratic

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From theo cracy, originally from grc θεοκρατία, a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622.