Mortocracy

Quick meaning: Mortocracy is a noun meaning (rare) Rule or government based on death in some way.

Meaning

(rare) Rule or government based on death in some way.

Example Sentences

In the 1970s and 1980s El Salvador was ruled by what might best be described as a "mortocracy": government by death. Ruled by a small group of wealthy elite, the country was controlled by death squads.

Eritrean historical consciousness has long been characterized by mourning, loss and grievance, and more broadly it is possible to understand history in the Horn from the perspective of emotional response and remembrance, most obviously manifest in the martyrology—a kind of mortocracy—which underpins the Eritrean state in its modern form.

Word Forms

• mortocracies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mausolocracy, thanatocracy, necrocracy, magocracy, merocracy, democide.

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