statocracy

noun

statocracy

noun

Etymology From state + -cracy

1

government by the state, or by political power in distinction from ecclesiastical power

  • Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God1861, Orestes Brownson, “Pope and EMperor”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review:

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