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mon·ar·chy (mänər kē, -är-)

noun pl. -·ar·chies

  1. Rare rule by only one person
  2. a government or state headed by a monarch: called absolute when there is no limitation on the monarch's power, constitutional when there is such limitation

Etymology: ME monarchie < OFr < LL monarchia < Gr < monarchos: see monarch

monarchy Synonyms

monarchy

n.

monarchy Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • overthrow: Moriarty: Hurry, Ned, it's a revolution, they will overthrow the monarchy!
  • abolish: Such people are not unduly concerned whether a Protestant or Roman Catholic should be monarch - they want to abolish the monarchy altogether.
  • restore: In 1660, Charles II passed through Rochester on his way to London to restore the monarchy.
  • unite: No empire ever ruled a " united monarchy " from Jerusalem.
  • replace: By such a spirited death, she provided the reason for the Roman people to replace the monarchy with the republic.
  • establish: The middle-class Third Estate proclaims itself the National Assembly on 17th June which on 9th July establishes a constitutional monarchy.

Preposition: in

  • century: These serious questions included that of the role of the monarchy in the next century.

Adjective modifier

  • constitutional: In the early 1990s Nepal was a constitutional monarchy.
  • hereditary: Simply put, a core part of what hereditary monarchy is all about is lineage.
  • feudal: The Prussian constitutional conflict was the last time the class struggle of the German bourgeoisie flared up against the feudal monarchy.
  • davidic: To them Jeremiah's radical words of the destruction of the temple and the cessation of the Davidic monarchy were blasphemous.
  • absolute: Persia converted from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy in 1906.
  • autocratic: He has also endorsed the pro-democracy demonstrations against the autocratic monarchy.

Modifies a noun

  • website: Shall I write about Prince Andrew and his recent interview now available on the " Official " British Monarchy website?
  • web: The British Monarchy web site was originally launched by The Queen in March 1997.
  • today: What do you think about the state of the monarchy today?
  • system: We on the other hand should not bother ourselves too much with the constitutional monarchy system in Britain.

Noun used with modifier

  • Hashemite: Scholars of modern Jordan have acknowledged the special relations between the tribes and the Hashemite monarchy.
  • absolutist: Influenced by Western ideas, he wished to see an absolutist monarchy on Western lines.
  • tsarist: The Russian proletariat has not flinched from any sacrifice to rid humanity of the disgrace of the tsarist monarchy.
monarchy Quotes

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

—Hobbes,Thomas

The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

—Mamet, David Alan

As a Minister, it is my policy to keep all the nationalities within the Habsburg monarchy in a balanced state of well-modulated dissatisfaction.

—Taaffe, Eduard FranzJosef, Graf von

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardlyanywhere in the world understand any other.

—Bagehot,Walter

   My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy.

—Montrose,James Graham, 1st Marquis of

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