thanatocracies

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A form of thanatocracy — Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of thanatocracy
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