clericocracy
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- Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
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clericocracy (uncountable)
- (rare, politics) Rule by clerics.
- 1988, K. Seshadri, Marxism and Indian Polity, page 120:
- Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.
- 2011, Leslie Francis, The Public Significance of Religion, page 32:
- 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?