angelocracyn.
/ˌeɪn(d)ʒəˈlɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌeɪndʒəˈlɑkrəsi/ A body of angels ruling or watching over the world or a particular nation, group, etc. Also occasionally: government or rule by angels.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of angels
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1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 940 Those Angelocracies, or Angelical Governments of Countries and Nations.
1699 T. Gipps Rector of Bury's Reply 9 Jerom holding the Doctrine of Angelocracy.
a1742 C. Wheatly Fifty Serm. (1746) III. xiii. 314 The rest of the Nations were under an Angelocracy, or had Guardian Angels set over them to protect them.
1931 L. B. Radford Epist. to Colossians & Epist. to Philemon vi. 80 The Cross..was the disarming of the cosmic angelocracy or demonocracy that dominated the life of mankind.
2005 D. Wilson in D. Wilson & G. T. Fischer Omnibus I 100/2 Throughout the Old Testament we see a celestial and angelic government over the nations of men (an ‘Angelocracy’, if you will).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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