theocracy

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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 • Mar. 1, 2026

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 • Feb. 27, 2026

We might use the term theocracy, although it's a little more complicated than that.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2024

Intersected at its peak by a thin crescent — most likely a representation of the Golden Order, the dark fantasy world’s ruling theocracy — it feels bluntly referential to saints and prophets and resurrections.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

But this does not constitute a really sacerdotal dominion, and the term theocracy is as little applicable to such an order of things, as to the Greek Patriarchate in the Turkish empire.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich