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statocracy

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Etymology

From state + -cracy

Noun

statocracy (countable and uncountable, plural statocracies)

  1. government by the state, or by political power in distinction from ecclesiastical power
    • 1861, Orestes Brownson, “Pope and EMperor”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review:
      Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God

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