thanatocracy

发音

UK /θænəˈtɒkɹəsi/
US /θænəˈtɑkɹəsi/

词形变化

thanatocracies 复数 thanatocracies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.

  2. 2.

    The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.

  3. 3.

    The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.

  4. 4.

    A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.

    Exodus from Egypt means a departure from the thanatocracy where all our energies are expended on building the tombs of mummified eternal death.

  5. 5.

    Endemic stagnation or decay.

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词源

From thanato- + -cracy.

来源：wiktionary