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Theocracy vs Thearchy - What's the difference?

theocracy | thearchy |

Thearchy is a related term of theocracy.



As nouns the difference between theocracy and thearchy

is that theocracy is government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.

thearchy is a government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.

theocracy

English

(wikipedia theocracy)

Noun

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

  • Rule by a god.
  • * (seeCites)

    • Hyponyms

    * sharia law

    thearchy

    English

    Noun

    (thearchies)
  • A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
  • * 1643 , Subject of Supremacie , 42:
    • There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie , or divine dynastie.
  • * 1643 , Maximes Unfolded , 8:
    • Thearchie , or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.
  • * 1863 , G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators , I 254:
    • [The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy , to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.
  • A system or ordering of deities.
  • * 1852 , P.J. Bailey, Festus , 11:
    • From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.
    1876 , W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism , 245:
  • :: Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy .
  • * 1899 Dec. 1, ''Literary Guide, 178 1:
    • When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy ...was already tottering to its fall.

    Related terms

    * thearch (1) * theocracy (1) * hierarchy (2)

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