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Theocracy

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a system of government in which priests or religious authority rule in the name of a god
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Stage 1 of 2
theos
Greek · ancient
"god"
god, combined with kratos (power)
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Stage 2 of 2
theocracy
English · 1600s
"government by religious authority"
settled as the English word for government by religious authority
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