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Polytheistic vs Theocracy - What's the difference?

polytheistic | theocracy |

As an adjective polytheistic

is of or relating to polytheism.

As a noun theocracy is

government under the control of a state-sponsored religion

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polytheistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or relating to polytheism
  • * 1909 , The Quarterly Review , p. 124:
    • The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic , and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
  • * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • The horse stood still till he had finished the hymn, which Jude repeated under the sway of a polytheistic fancy that he would never have thought of humouring in broad daylight.

    theocracy

    English

    (wikipedia theocracy)

    Noun

    (theocracies)
  • Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.

  • Rule by a god.
  • * (seeCites)

    • Hyponyms

    * sharia law