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autocracy Noun pl -cies government by an individual with unrestricted authority autocracy 1. a government in which one person has unrestricted control over others. See also: Government2. a country with an autocratic system. — autocrat, n. — autocratic, adj. a society or nation ruled by a person with absolute authority. — autocrat, n. — autocratie, adj. See also: Society
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* The Black Hundreds were reactionary mobs organized by the perishing Autocracy in the Russian Revolution. In his mystic acceptance of the principle of autocracy he was bent on extirpating from the land every vestige of anything that resembled freedom in public institutions; and in his ruthless persecution of the rising generation he seemed to aim at the destruction of the very hope of liberty itself. |
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