Anarchy
['ænəkɪ] or ['ænɚki]
Definition
(noun.) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government).
Typed by Erica--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
(n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Disorder, misrule, confusion, want of government.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disorder, tumult, rebellion, riot, misgovernment, insubordination
ANT:Order, subjection, government, organization, control, law
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Definition
n. the want of government in a state: political confusion: conflict of opinion.—adjs. Anarch′al (rare); Anarch′ic Anarch′ical.—v.t. Anarch′ise.—ns. An′archism anarchy: the negation of government—the name adopted by a phase of revolutionary socialism associated with the names of Proudhon and Bakunin. Their ideal of society was of one without government of any kind when every man should be a law unto himself; An′archist An′arch one who promotes anarchy.
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
- Its object (in your English opinion) is anarchy and revolution. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a strange freedom, that almost amounted to anarchy, in the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This is my post: I was born for this--to rule England in anarchy, to save her in danger--to devote myself for her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Insolence they call good breeding, anarchy freedom, waste magnificence, impudence courage. Plato. The Republic.
- Since conformity is the aim, what is distinctively individual in a young person is brushed aside, or regarded as a source of mischief or anarchy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Anarchy is the law, not of the State only, but of private houses, and extends even to the animals. Plato. The Republic.
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