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autocracy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'autocracy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Autocracy [ n.]
- 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.