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Autocracy

Autocracy Meaning & Definition
Autocracy Definition And Meaning

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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