What does "autocracy" mean?
Autocracy: Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
Additional senses
- 2.Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.
- 3.(Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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