hierocracy

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Etymology

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From hiero- +‎ -cracy.

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Noun

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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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