statocracy
English
editEtymology
editFrom state + -o- + -cracy, as in democracy.
Noun
editstatocracy (countable and uncountable, plural statocracies)
- government by the state, or by political power in distinction from ecclesiastical power
- 1861, Orestes Brownson, “Pope and EMperor”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review:
- Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God
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