Autocracy
[ɔː'tɒkrəsɪ] or [ɔ'tɑkrəsi]
Definition
(noun.) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual.
(noun.) a political system governed by a single individual.
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Definition
(n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
(n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
(n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
(n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dictatorship, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, arbitrary power, absolute power.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AUTOCRATIC]
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An autocracy would no doubt have been admissible as a fully self-governing democracy with a franchise limited to one person. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In all these things he moved with the times, they would have happened--with less autocracy, with less centralization, if he had never been born. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The story becomes the story of a barbaric autocracy in confusion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Russian autocracy was dishonest and incompetent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood-stained magnificence, and moral squalor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His own rule was unlimited autocracy, and autocratic Islam has remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- India is an autocracy without an autocrat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Millie