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theocon

theocon is the clipping of theoconservative.

Meaning of theoconservative

Noun

theoconservative (plural theoconservatives)

  1. (US) A person who believes that religion should play a role in forming public policy.
    • Only a small percentage of theoconservatives bother to live a strict Biblical lifestyle (Barna 2003), half their marriages fail, and although polls show that the theoconservative third of the population disapproves of premarital sex, surveys reveal that more than eight in ten theoconservatives...2009, Phil Zuckerman, Atheism and Secularity, page 171
    Synonyms:
    theocon

Forms of theocon

pluraltheocons

Origin of theocon

Shortening, similar to neocon etc.

Questions about theocon

What is theocon the clipping of?
Theocon is the clipping of theoconservative.

Words near theocon in the dictionary

  1. theocentric
  2. theocentrically
  3. theocentricity
  4. theocentrism
  5. theocentrisms
  6. theocon
  7. theocons
  8. theoconservatism
  9. theoconservative
  10. theoconservatives
  11. theocracies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: theocon (page history and authors); theoconservative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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