hierocracy
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And indeed this is the fatal result of every theocracy, for it can never really be anything but a hierocracy or rule of priests.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert
According to natural order, Vermont will emerge next, because least, after Rhode Island, under the yoke of hierocracy.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
The hierocracy is taken for granted as the constitution of the congregation.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
The problem would in this case still be the same, namely, to explain how it is that with and after the exile the hierocracy begins to come into practical activity.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
But the suddenness with which this full-grown hierocracy descended on the wilderness from the skies is only matched by the suddenness with which it afterwards disappeared in Canaan, leaving no trace behind it.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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