About The Word Autocracy
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Autocracy
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What's The Definition Of Autocracy?
[n] a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
[n] a political system governed by a single individual Synonyms | Synonyms for Autocracy: autarchy Related Terms | Find terms related to Autocracy: See Also | absolutism | authoritarianism | Caesarism | despotism | diarchy | dictatorship | dyarchy | form of government | ideology | Machiavellianism | monarchy | monocracy | one-man rule | political orientation | political system | political theory | shogunate | Stalinism | totalitarianism | tyranny Autocracy In Webster's Dictionary \Au*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Autocracies}. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
autocratie. See {Autocrat}.]
1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling
authority; supremacy.
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse
or inclination of objects, but determines itself by
an absolute autocracy. --South.
2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of
governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a
state); autonomy. --Barlow.
4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the
instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the
individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense,
written also {autocrasy}.] --Dunglison.
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