thanatocracy English

Meaning thanatocracy meaning

What does thanatocracy mean?

thanatocracy noun

— Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.

— The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.

— The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.

— A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.

— nominal governance by a dead person