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Definition of Theocracies
1. theocracy [n] - See also: theocracy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theocracies
Literary usage of Theocracies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1878)
"CHAPTER X theocracies Three modes of life, the hunting, the pastoral, and the
agricultural — Difficulty of passing from one mode to another — Requisites of ..."
2. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1878)
"Ethics must be based on authority—Province of prophetism—of theocracies to codify
laws— Theocratic codes very minute—Their object, the destruction of ..."
3. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"CHAPTER X theocracies Three modes of life, the hunting, the pastoral, and the
agricultural—Difficulty of passing from one mode to another—Requisites of the ..."
4. Theory of Politics: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Governments and the by Richard Hildreth (1853)
"SECTION FOURTH. Of theocracies. WITH respect to governments founded on mystical
ideas, commonly known as theocracies, it is not so ..."
5. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1876)
"The mistakes current upon this point arise from a vulgar confusion of true
Theocracy with those degenerate temporal theocracies in which the Warriors, ..."
6. Introduction to Political Science: A Treatise on the Origin, Nature by James Wilford Garner (1910)
"If rightly applied, the Aristotelian principle will not produce any such absurd
classifications. III. theocracies ..."
7. Seven Lectures on the Doctrine of Positivism: Delivered at the Positivist by Joseph Kaines (1880)
"theocracies beget the system of Castes, which system serves immense social uses
by rendering trades, occupations, and professions hereditary in certain ..."
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