theocracy
Meaning
Noun
- Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.
- Rule by a god.
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Origin
- theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία, a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the kingdom of Israel. Attested in English from the 1630s, first by John Donne in a 1631 sermon: The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God.
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