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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   government by the state, or by political power in distinction from ecclesiastical power countable, uncountable

   "Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God"

Example

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"Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God"

Etymology

From state + -cracy

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