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noun, feminine

frailocracia

/fɾailoˈkɾaθja/

noun, feminine/fɾailoˈkɾaθja/

excessive and disproportionate socio-political-economic dominance of the Spanish Catholic friars over Spanish colonial Philippines, that was a constant target of criticism by the Filipino intelligentsia known as the ilustrados during the late 1800s

From fraile + -o- + -cracia, famously coined by Marcelo H. del Pilar.