mortocracy

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mortocracy

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Latin mors (“death”) + -cracy

noun mortocracies

countable, rare, uncountable Rule or government based on death in some way. 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.

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"mortocracy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mortocracy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"mortocracy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mortocracy.

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@misc{mortocracy_2026,
  title = {mortocracy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mortocracy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}