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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of theocrat1

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

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.

If there is any singular motto of an activist theocrat, surely that is it.

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