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English word thanatocracy comes from English -cracy (Rule.), English thanato- (Death.)

-cracy (English)

Rule.

thanato- (English)

Death.

thanatocracy (English)

(figuratively) Endemic stagnation or decay.. A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.. 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.. [...]

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