Historical and derogatory name for Roman Catholics or Catholicism.
Medieval theory of papal power.
Sinônimos
Examples for "hierocracy"
Examples for "hierocracy"
1The hierocracy is taken for granted as the constitution of the congregation.
2The hierocracy towards which Ezekiel had already opened the way was simply inevitable.
3The arbitrary proceeding of Joash did not well suit the ideas of an autonomous hierocracy.
4All these changes are the natural outcome of the importation of the hierocracy into Mosaic times.
5Here plainly lies the material basis of the hierocracy from which the royal throne was ultimately reached.
1The Those who yielded to stress of persecution fell back into Papalism and went to swell the tide of the Catholic reaction.
Translations for papalism