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Hierocracy

//haɪəˈɹɑkɹəsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Government by ecclesiastics. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a ruling body composed of clergy wordnet
  3. 3
    The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power. Middle-Ages, countable, historical, uncountable

Etymology

From hiero- + -cracy.

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