Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Government or rule by a single person; autocracy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Government or rule by a single person; autocracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Government by a single person; undivided rule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
autocracy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professor Themba Sono, a political science lecturer and member of a tiny splinter party, feared for South Africa under the ANC, which he said was working towards a "monocracy", or one-party state.
The Advertiser 2009
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The kind of monocracy that Gadhafi has created is not very much influenced by religion politically as much as it is influenced by religion socially, said Akl.
Libyan Opposition Leaders Debate Role of Religion in Government 2011
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The kind of monocracy that Gadhafi has created is not very much influenced by religion politically as much as it is influenced by religion socially, said Akl.
Libyan Opposition Leaders Debate Role of Religion in Government 2011
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The kind of monocracy that Gadhafi has created is not very much influenced by religion politically as much as it is influenced by religion socially, said Akl.
Libyan Opposition Leaders Debate Role of Religion in Government 2011
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But his critics, including the main opposition party, the Socialists, said they would increase the power of the already semiroyal president, creating a "monocracy."
War-Crimes Arrest 2008
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Washington had written to John Jay, in a moment of depression, when he feared that what Genet was to call monocracy was in the ascendant; what triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are unable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
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He continued to gloat over his successes and mercilessly to abuse all Federalists, those confessed partisans of monocracy.
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Their purblind spite was powerless to avert the inevitable advent of monocracy.
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The Persian and Hebrew systems expressed more definitely the idea of a divine monocracy, and lent themselves easily to the formation of a religious society, a church, but they did not escape the limitations of mere national feeling.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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After the long monocracy of Nakaeia and the changes of Nanteitei, the Old Men were doubtless grown impatient of obscurity, and they were beyond question jealous of the influence of Maka.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
qms commented on the word monocracy
For -ocracy I’ve run out of rhymes
That dodge phonetical crimes.
I dread the monotony
Of such as monocracy;
I’ve rhymed them too many times.
February 6, 2018