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theocracy
noun as in government in which a deity is the supreme civil ruler
Strongest matches
- church-state
- hierocracy
Example Sentences
Wilson, whose ministry operates hundreds of churches around the world, is an outspoken right-wing evangelical, espousing extremely conservative views of Christianity, including the view that the U.S. should be a theocracy.
Republicans are getting increasingly aggressive about spreading Christian nationalist lies that the U.S. was founded as a functional theocracy, when it was intended to be a secular nation.
The reality is that nationalism, not theocracy, remains what what the historian Ali Ansari calls the “determining ideology” of Iran.
Are they going to turn Alabama into a theocracy, like Iran, where women don't have rights?
From early 2023, Israel was gripped by an unprecedented wave of protests among Jewish Israelis against Netanyahu's judicial reforms, with many arguing he was moving the country towards theocracy – a claim he always rejected.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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