Theocracy

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  • noun. Government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
  • noun. A country or state governed in this way.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A form of government in which God is recognized as the supreme civil ruler of the state, and his laws are taken as the statute-book of the kingdom.
  • noun. A state so governed: usually applied, with the definite article, to the Jewish commonwealth from the time of its organization under Moses until the inauguration of the monarchy under Saul.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
  • noun. The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Government under the control of a Church or state-sponsored religion.
  • noun. Rule by God.
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  • noun. a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
  • noun. the belief in government by divine guidance
    • Word Usage
    "I disagree on a core level that a theocracy is the ideal government."
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