Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/January 29

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for January 29
caesaropapism n
  1. (government, religion) The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.

The German ecclesiastical jurist Justus Henning Böhmer, who probably coined the New Latin word caesaro-papia, was born on this day in 1674.

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