Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who governs alone; an autocrat.
- noun In United States history, a name often applied by opponents to a member of the Federalist party, to which monarchical tendencies were imputed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who governs alone.
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- noun An
autocrat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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While John Marshall found him "a sensible, plain, candid, good-tempered man," Jefferson could see in him nothing but a "monocrat" and "Anglo-man."
History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917
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Republican was no better than a democrat, a Jacobin, a revolutionary incendiary; and the Federalist no better than a monocrat and a Tory.
Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900
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What would they have said to the proposal to create a monocrat _ad hoc_, an official permanently endowed by virtue of his office with the function of king-maker?
The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871
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All the old spirit of 1776, rekindling the newspapers from Boston to Charleston, proves this; and even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England.
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852
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They see that nothing can support them but the colossus of the President's merits with the people, and the moment he retires, that his successor, if a monocrat, will be overborne by the republican sense of his constituents; if a republican, he will of course give fair play to that sense, and lead things into the channel of harmony between the governors and governed.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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