hierocracy
Americannoun
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hierocracies
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The hierocracy towards which Ezekiel had already opened the way was simply inevitable.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
The circumstance is one indication of a melancholy process of disintegration that was at that time going on within the hierocracy.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
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 Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The hierocracy is taken for granted as the constitution of the congregation.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
All these changes are the natural outcome of the importation of the hierocracy into Mosaic times.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
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