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theocracy

[thee-ok-ruh-see] / θiˈɒk rə si /
NOUN
government in which a deity is the supreme civil ruler
Synonyms
STRONGEST
church-state hierocracy


Example Sentences

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She added that her family was happy, but that they expected the collapse of the theocracy to take a longer time.

From Los Angeles Times

Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But I also don’t think it’s going to be a theocracy anymore.

From Salon

In Westwood — the epicenter of the community, where the eponymous boulevard is lined by storefronts covered in Persian script — the widespread opposition to Iran’s hard-line theocracy is hard to miss.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps no less important, this compendium captures both the end of the Pahlavi monarchy and the start of the theocracy that still governs Iran, granting viewers an often telling glimpse of Persian society in flux.

From The Wall Street Journal