Definition of Autocracy

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Autocracy

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

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Autocracy Quotations

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
John Charles Polanyi

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn

Autocracy Translations

autocracy in German is Autokratie {f}

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