Helen Fenton

Autocracy: Definition and part of speech

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Autocracy

  1. n. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
  2. n. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
  3. n. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
  4. n. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Autocrat: Definition and part of speech

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Autocrat

  1. a. One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
  2. a. An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Autocratical: Definition and part of speech

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Autocratical

  1. a. Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Autocratrix: Definition and part of speech

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Autocratrix

  1. n. A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; — a title given to the empresses of Russia.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.