Theocracy

Definitions

1. Government under the control of a state religion.
   countable, uncountable
2. Rule by a god.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Lynch certainly seems to think⟳ to. “We feel⟳ liberated from the prism of the past,” he says. “Ireland was a theocracy.””

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:theocracy.”

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