What is "theocrats"

Usage examples of "theocrats".

The ruling theocrats attempted to bring up later generations to believe theirs was the only righteous way of life and only heretics lived off-world.

Beginning with the third generation, there was at least one rebellion in each generation, some large enough that the theocrats were forced to request Confederation assistance in putting them down.

The theocrats, in his view, were as vile as the worst despot on any other human world.

The only variation in belief the theocrats allowed was between their various sects, not within them.

The only thing on which the theocrats seemed to be in agreement was that contact between the Marines and the civilian population should be as limited as possible.

The theocrats, through this Collegium thing--nothing more than a damned inquisition, you ask me--control both the minds and the bodies of their adherents.

He was turned over to the theocrats in an elaborate wooden office at the foot of one of the secondary pyramids.

The only solution, the theocrats decided, was to ban proselytizing all together.