Theocracy

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1. Noun

Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

2. Noun

The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

3. Noun

the belief in government by divine guidance
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