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theocracy

[ US /θiˈɑkɹəsi/ ]
[ UK /θɪˈɒkɹəsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
  2. the belief in government by divine guidance

How To Use theocracy In A Sentence

  • Now my friend the parson is the outgrowth of the New England theocracy, about the simplest, purest, and least objectionable state of society that the world ever saw. Oldtown Folks
  • Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
  • But the speech was most notable for the force with which Yeats pleaded that the Free State should not become a theocracy.
  • Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.
  • When Aikenhead climbed the scaffold Scotland was not far off being a theocracy in everything but name.
  • Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy.
  • They sought a home in a fresh wilderness, where they might be undisturbed by superior human authority; they had no doctrinarian notions of equality, nor of the inequality which is the only possible condition of liberty; the idea of toleration was not born in their age; they did not project a republic; they established a theocracy, a church which assumed all the functions of a state, recognizing one Supreme Complete Essays
  • It represented an extreme example of a theocracy - of a body politic organised essentially around religious principles.
  • There is one group that wants to use democracy as an excuse for political payback and create a theocracy not a democracy.
  • They are about "Theocracy" or getting whatever fossil they have designated the power to dictate to everybody whatever spew he wishes to pretend is the word of "god". Rush ...Glen ....Sarah next?
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