hierocracy

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Etymology[edit]

hiero- +‎ -cracy

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hierocracy (countable and uncountable, plural hierocracies)

  1. Government by ecclesiastics.
  2. (historical, Middle Ages) The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power.

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