theocracy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'theocracy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Theocracy

[ n.]

- Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
- The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

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