Meaning of clericocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

Rule by clerics.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonym: theocracy”

“Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.”

“Does this mean that religions are still more attached to (hybrid forms of) theocracy, clericocracy and monocracy than to democracy, which underlies the two principles?”

CEFR level