angelocracy

English

Etymology

From angel +‎ -ocracy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪnd͡ʒəˈlɒkrəsi/

Noun

angelocracy (plural angelocracies)

1. Government or rule by angels.
   • 1868, The British Quarterly Review, volume 47, page 543:

     This very remarkable effort to conceive the act of dying 'that masterful negation and collapse of all that makes me man,' that high imagining of the disembodied spirit's journal to the dread tribunal of God in the company of the Guardian Angle, of the spirits in purgatory, and of the entire angelocracy of Heaven, shows how profoundly the mind of the extraordinary man has pondered the terrible questions raised by modern philosophy […]