"demonocracy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1717, Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary - Explaining the Difficult Terms:",
          "text": "Demonocracy, the Government of Devils ...",
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          "ref": "1848, Frances Wright, England, The Civilizer: Her History Developed in its Principles:",
          "text": "Thus we see, that while the theological and doctrinal poet inaugurated male supremacy in the person of the godhead in heaven, of humanity on earth, and of demonocracy in hell, so did the philosopher propound the universal prevalence, and irresistable omnipotence, of the male principle throughout the whole of existence.",
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          "text": "[…] a magic book printed in 1612, in which the various dignitaries of the demonocracy are described according to their rank and position.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bob Carruthers (editor), The Gestapo on Trial - Evidence from Nuremberg, page 303:",
          "text": "The effect of demonocracy in the wide world has become clear to you in some of the cases of the individual defendants.",
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