Autocracy Definition

ô-tŏkrə-sē
autocracies
noun
autocracies
Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
American Heritage
Government in which one person has absolute power; dictatorship; despotism.
Webster's New World
A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
American Heritage
A country with this kind of government.
Webster's New World
Unlimited power or authority of one person over others.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
autocracy
Plural:
autocracies

Origin of Autocracy

  • auto- +‎ -cracy, from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (autokrates, “one who governs alone”), from αὐτός (autos, “single, self, same, alone”) + κράτος (kratos, “power”).

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Autocracy Sentence Examples

  • In some islands hereditary autocracy prevailed; in others the government was elective.

  • The supreme peril to the autocracy in Russia lay in the genuine grievances of the peasants, less political than economic, which had opened their minds to revolutionary propaganda.

  • He fought in the constitutionalist army against the Austrians at Rieti (7th of March 1821), and on the re-establishment of autocracy he was arrested and imprisoned for three months by order of the prince of Canosa, the chief of police, his particular enemy.

  • Paul III.s pontificate was further marked by important changes in the church, all of which confirmed the spiritual autocracy of Rome.

  • What form it would ultimately take depended still on the balance between the forces of conservatism and change, the suspicious temper of the autocracy being revealed, during the years of unstable equilibrium, by the alternate concession and withdrawal of privileges, e.g.

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