Definition of Monocracy

1. Noun. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).


Definition of Monocracy

1. n. Government by a single person; undivided rule.

Definition of Monocracy

1. Noun. autocracy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monocracy

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocracy

monocondyla
monocoordinated
monocoque
monocoques
monocot family
monocot genus
monocots
monocotyl
monocotyle
monocotyledons
monocotyls
monocracies
monocracy (current term)
monocranius
monocrat
monocratic
monocratically
monocrats
monocrotaline
monocrotic
monocrotic pulse
monocrotism
monocrotophos
monocrystal
monocrystalline
monocrystals
monoctanoin

Literary usage of Monocracy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1834)
"Mobocracy ! The largest and most respectable portion of the audience. Truly a -monocracy ! (2.) of the questions and answers elicited ..."

2. Social Institutions in Their Origin, Growth, and Interconnection by Denton Jaques Snider (1901)
"The United States Government is a monocracy, a one-willed Institution, yet likewise an ... A monocracy is different from a monarchy or an autocracy, ..."

3. Social Institutions in Their Origin, Growth, and Interconnection by Denton Jaques Snider (1901)
"The United States Government is a monocracy, a one-willed Institution, yet likewise an ... A monocracy is different from a monarchy or an autocracy, ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In bot., having only one seed-lobe or seminal leaf. monocracy(mo- ... man with a fri-e government, and make him sigh for the monocracy of Constantinople. ..."

5. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"Their plurality following a monocracy,—in its earlier stage a conservative, in its later a progressive, monocracy—this of itself announces that the temporal ..."

6. A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations and Phrases which are by James Arthur Ballentine (1916)
"monocracy. A government with a single ruler. ... The ruler of a monocracy. Monogamy. The condition of having but one spouse' at a time. ..."

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