Pornocracy Definition

noun

A government by prostitutes, or a government dominated by them.

Wiktionary
pronoun
(sometimes capitalized) The period of the Rule of the Harlots which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti.
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Other Word Forms of Pornocracy

Noun

Singular:
pornocracy
Plural:
pornocracies

Origin of Pornocracy

  • porn- +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy

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Pornocracy Sentence Examples

  • For, while the power of Charlemagne's successors was decaying, the papacy itself became involved in the confusion of the party strife of Italy and of the city of Rome, and was plunged in consequence into such an abyss of degradation (the so-called Pornocracy), that it was in danger of forfeiting every shred of its moral authority over Christendom.

  • Agapetus, a man of some force of character, did his best to put a stop to the degradation into which the papacy had fallen, the so-called "Pornocracy," which lasted from the accession of Sergius III.

  • This is the beginning of the so-called "pornocracy."

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