theocrat

[thee-uh-krat]

noun

1. a person who rules, governs as a representative of God or a deity, or is a member of the ruling group in a theocracy, as a divine king or a high priest.

2. a person who favors theocracy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of theocrat¹

1820–30; back formation from theocratic < Greek theokrat ( ía ) theocracy + -ic

Example Sentences

But in the context of the story, Young comes off as a smooth-talking fanatic theocrat, his nearly every utterance sounding like a threat; one can imagine him animated as a Disney villain.

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Penn had his faults; but a theocrat he never ever was.

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Joseph de Maistre was "a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist ... always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism."

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His National Review co-founder and coauthor of a defense of Joseph McCarthy, L. Brent Bozell, even outdid Buckley in that department, being as ferocious a theocrat as Maistre had been more than a century earlier.

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In Bush’s second term, Democrats motivated a lot of voters by portraying him as an incompetent theocrat.

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