theocracy

n. 神权政治, 神权国

发音

US /θiːˈɒkɹəsi/

词形变化

theocracies 复数 theocracies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Government under the control of a state religion.

    神权政治

    政教合一

    可数 不可数

    Near-synonym: clericocracy

    Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama prior to Chinese annexation.

    The Vatican City State is a sovereign city-state and a Christian theocracy ruled by the Pope.

  2. 2.

    Rule by a god.

    可数 不可数

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

ideology form of government political system

下位词 1

hierocracy

词源

From theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..."

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