pornocracy

n. 淫妇政治(指公元10世纪时罗马贵族中的几个淫妇成为教皇情妇而控制教廷大权)

发音

UK /pɔːˈnɒkɹəsɪ/
其它
US /pɔɹˈnɑkɹəsi/

词形变化

pornocracies 复数 pornocracies the Pornocracy

别名

Pornocracy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A government by, or dominated by, prostitutes or corrupt persons.

    贬义 比喻
  2. 2.

    A societal culture dominated by pornography.

    贬义
name
  1. 1.

    The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family.

    历史 宗教

词源

Probably borrowed from German Pornokratie, first found in the writings of Austrian-born Biblical scholar Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889), from Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “female prostitute”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā, “-cracy”, suffix indicating “government, rule”); analysable as porno- + -cracy.

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