clericocracy
clericocracy noun: rule by clerics.
Noun
clericocracy (uncountable)
- Rule by clerics.
- Near-synonym: theocracy
- Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.1988, K. Seshadri, Marxism and Indian Polity, page 120
- Synonyms:
- theocracy
- Antonyms:
- anticlericalism
Synonyms of clericocracy
Antonyms
Origin of clericocracy
From cleric + -o- + -cracy.
Words that rhyme with clericocracy
- democracy
- bureaucracy
- aristocracy
- autocracy
- corpocracy
- critocracy
- czarocracy
- demonocracy
- dollarocracy
- hierocracy
- idiocracy
- pornocracy
38 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- thalassocracy
- adhocracy
- albocracy
- algocracy
- Americanocracy
- androcracy
- argentocracy
- arithmocracy
- atheocracy
- athletocracy
- blobocracy
- boobocracy
- chirocracy
- chrysocracy
- clerocracy
- corporatocracy
- corruptocracy
- cosmocracy
- cottonocracy
- cryptocracy
- cyberocracy
- demagocracy
- despotocracy
- ecclesiocracy
- ecocracy
- economocracy
- elitocracy
- ephebocracy
- familiocracy
- foolocracy
- geniocracy
- ideocracy
- idiocrasy
- infantocracy
- kludgeocracy
- mediocracy
- merocracy
- xerocracy
Questions about clericocracy
- What does clericocracy mean?
- Clericocracy means rule by clerics.
- What part of speech is clericocracy?
- Clericocracy is a noun.
Words near clericocracy in the dictionary
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