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Webster 1913 Edition
Autocracy
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.
Definition 2024
autocracy
autocracy
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Noun
autocracy (countable and uncountable, plural autocracies)
- (uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
- (countable) An instance of this government.
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form of government
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