Hierocracies is a 12 letter English word.
You can make 668 anagrams from letters in hierocracies (acceehiiorrs).
First recorded in 1785-95; hiero- + -cracy
When a hierocracy has been firmly established its evolution always follows similar lines.
He met the inevitable demand of the hierocracy, "By what authority doest thou these things?"
The form of government is far nearer a democracy than a hierocracy.
And indeed this is the fatal result of every theocracy, for it can never really be anything but a hierocracy or rule of priests.
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