Theocracy is valid Scrabble Word

Is theocracy a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for THEOCRACY in dictionary:

NOUN:

government by priests or by religious law
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as king.
government by a god or priests
Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.
a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)
the belief in government by divine guidance

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

Words related to THEOCRACY

theocracies18 theocrat13 theocrats14

How to use THEOCRACY in a sentence

The only antiquity which had authority to them was the Jewish Commonwealth, because it was a theocracy, and recognized God Almighty as the supreme ruler of the world.
His ideal State would, in its way, have been little better than any theocracy.
They aspired, probably from Calvinistic influence, but aspired in vain, to establish a theocracy, borrowed somewhat from that of the Jews.
So efficient were monastic institutions in advocating the idea of a theocracy, as upheld by the popes, that they were exempted from episcopal authority.
Who but the Church can do this? A theocracy will create a new civilization.
The government was a kind of irregular aristocratic republic, not without a touch of theocracy.
All true Reformers, as I said, are by the nature of them Priests, and strive for a Theocracy.
They identified themselves in thought with his chosen people, with the militant theocracy of the Jews.
It was professed by thorough-going Americans, essentially free and liberty-loving, who would not for a moment have tolerated a theocracy in their midst.
Puritanism entered the warp and woof of the Massachusetts colony, and a combination of circumstances tended to build up a theocracy which dominated affairs.

After the court of assistants resumed their meetings in March, 1631, the upbuilding of the theocracy was rapidly pushed.
A fatal germ of theocracy was introduced into the world.
And if any one should ask, how was such a system more likely to arise under a Gentile rather than a Jewish theocracy? why was a St.
At one time God had erected a theocracy on earth, a Church which was a visible society, and for which He had made special laws and ordinances.
But within this culture there was lacking the power of understanding either the idea of the completed Old Testament theocracy, or the idea of the Messiah.
For that reason, the idea of the Theocracy as well as the Messianic hopes of the future faded away or were uprooted.
Never again will there be a theocracy with a sensuous external economy, limited to a single nation.
Later it encountered the worst influence of all, that of theocracy engendered by the ambition of the monk Hildebrand.
The Christian does not demand that the State shall be a theocracy.
All true Reformers are by nature of them Priests, and strive for a Theocracy.
His Theocracy is sublime, and his creed is the only acceptable one to superior souls.
In fact, with the American Billiken, Santa Claus may be considered as the latest addition to the tolerant theocracy of Japan.
The delegated theocracy, thus sternly claimed, was exercised with equal rigour.
The faults of the Puritan theocracy, which found its most complete development in Massachusetts, are so glaring that it is idle to seek to palliate them or to explain them away.
Their ideal was not a theocracy but a separation between church and state.
Naturally it was in Massachusetts at the same time that the faults of the theocracy were most conspicuous.
But by 1682 it had become apparent that the king and his friends were meditating an attack upon the Puritan theocracy in New England.
No exclusive incarnate theocracy in any particular persons is left, Leviticus and the Hebrew priesthood are gone.
The government of the ancient Hebrews was a theocracy.
Logically this meant a theocracy, and the bull of Boniface VIII, by which he claimed that every human creature was subject to the Roman pontiff, was its necessary outcome.
But a theocracy was only a means, and a means that was never greatly emphasized in the best days of the papacy.
All this meant a theocracy of preachers elected by the populace, and governing the nation by their General Assembly in which nobles and other laymen sat as elders.
Most of the New England colonies viewed the foreigner with distrust as a menace to Puritan theocracy.

Similar words containing THEOCRA without suffix cy

theocrat13 theocrasy17 theocrats14 theocratic17 theocracies18 theocrasies16 theocratical19 theocratically24

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