An autocracy is a government controlled by one person with absolute power. As unlimited power doesn't usually bring out the best in people, autocracies are often brutal regimes.
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Noun
a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
Noun
a political system governed by a single individual
n.
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or
controlling authority; supremacy.
n.
Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of
governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
n.
Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a
state); autonomy.
n.
The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive
powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital
principle.
Autocracy
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy.2.
Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
Usage Examples
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe 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.