mortocracy
mortocracy noun: rule or government based on death in some way.
Noun
mortocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mortocracies)
- Rule or government based on death in some way.
- In the 1970s and 1980s El Salvador was ruled by what might best be described as a "mortocracy": government by death. Ruled by a small group of wealthy elite, the country was controlled by death squads.2000, John Jacob Nutter, The CIA's Black Ops, page 215
- Eritrean historical consciousness has long been characterized by mourning, loss and grievance, and more broadly it is possible to understand history in the Horn from the perspective of emotional response and remembrance, most obviously manifest in the martyrology—a kind of mortocracy—which...2020, Richard Reid, Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War, page xxix
Forms of mortocracy
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Origin of mortocracy
Latin mors (“death”) + -cracy
Questions about mortocracy
- What does mortocracy mean?
- Mortocracy means rule or government based on death in some way.
- What part of speech is mortocracy?
- Mortocracy is a noun.
- What is the plural of mortocracy?
- The plural of mortocracy is mortocracies.
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