Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Government or rule by a single person; autocracy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Government or rule by a single person; autocracy.
Wiktionary
- n. autocracy
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Government by a single person; undivided rule.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Etymologies
- mono- + -cracy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Professor Themba Sono, a political science lecturer and member of a tiny splinter party, feared for South Africa under the ANC, which he said was working towards a "monocracy", or one-party state.”
“The kind of monocracy that Gadhafi has created is not very much influenced by religion politically as much as it is influenced by religion socially, said Akl.”
Voice of America: Libyan Opposition Leaders Debate Role of Religion in Government
“But his critics, including the main opposition party, the Socialists, said they would increase the power of the already semiroyal president, creating a "monocracy.”
“ Washington had written to John Jay, in a moment of depression, when he feared that what Genet was to call monocracy was in the ascendant; what triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are unable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.”
“He continued to gloat over his successes and mercilessly to abuse all Federalists, those confessed partisans of monocracy.”
“Their purblind spite was powerless to avert the inevitable advent of monocracy.”
“The Persian and Hebrew systems expressed more definitely the idea of a divine monocracy, and lent themselves easily to the formation of a religious society, a church, but they did not escape the limitations of mere national feeling.”
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
“After the long monocracy of Nakaeia and the changes of Nanteitei, the Old Men were doubtless grown impatient of obscurity, and they were beyond question jealous of the influence of Maka.”
“The trend towards effective monocracy is not limited to Mr. Bush.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘monocracy’.
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phrontistery - m
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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ParkingLot
for whatever
colloquium, insouciance, adventive, agrestic, superstruct, effusion, neoteric, kittenish, probity, monocracy, proffered, quotidian and 2 more...
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Crazy "-Cracy"
Words that end in the suffix "-cracy", which therefore means that the word represents a form of government.
kakistocracy, meritocracy, gynecocracy, hagiocracy, corporatocracy, timocracy, gerontocracy, ethnocracy, sociocracy, kritocracy, thalassocracy, ochlocracy and 64 more...
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