theoconservative means A person who believes that religion should play a role in forming public policy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
THEOCONSERVATIVE — [Noun] A political conservative whose ideology is explicitly grounded in religious belief and who advocates for religious principles to play a central role in forming public policy. From the combining form theo- (from Greek theos, meaning "god") + conservative, indicating a political conservative whose ideology is explicitly grounded in religious belief. Unlike the secular conservative, who champions tradition while upholding a firm wall between church and state, or the theocrat, who seeks outright rule by clerical authority, the theoconservative operates within a democratic frame, seeking to steer the ship of state by a sacred compass. It is the polished wood of a think-tank lectern, the precise citation of scripture in a legislative brief, and the steady hum of a voting bloc mobilized by transcendent law—a conviction that a nation’s laws are hollow unless they echo a higher law, a quiet campaign to make the city of man more closely resemble the city of God.
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- A person who believes that religion should play a role in forming public policy.“Only a small percentage of theoconservatives bother to live a strict Biblical lifestyle (Barna 2003), half their marriages fail, and although polls show that the theoconservative third of the population disapproves of premarital sex, surveys reveal that more than eight in ten theoconservatives engage in it (Finer 2007).”