Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mortocracy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mor-toc-ra-cy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Rule or government based on death in some way.

Countable; Uncountable

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."

Etymology

Latin mors (“death”) + -cracy

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cracy

Usage

Inflected Forms

mortocracies (plural)

Questions

What does mortocracy mean?: Rule or government based on death in some way.
Where does mortocracy come from?: Latin mors (“death”) + -cracy

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