Meanings
- rareuncountablegovernmentRule by clerics.
Near-synonym: theocracy
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Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.
1988, K. Seshadri, Marxism and Indian Polity, page 120Does this mean that religions are still more attached to (hybrid forms of) theocracy, clericocracy and monocracy than to democracy, which underlies the two principles?
2011, Leslie Francis, The Public Significance of Religion, page 32Synonyms: theocracy · Antonyms: anticlericalism
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clericocracy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clericocracy
“clericocracy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clericocracy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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