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Definition of Autocrats
1. autocrat [n] - See also: autocrat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autocrats
Literary usage of Autocrats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"If, on the other hand, we turn to Russia, Prussia, and Austria, we do not find
the same tendency towards a decline in the number of autocrats. ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"... been limited for the good of the people, so the power of the capitaliste, the
autocrats of the present, must be abated for the benefit of the workers. ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... for their own sakes, that autocrats do not know what war means, else surely
the word never evil passions, the letting loose of so many devil«, ..."
4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1832)
"autocrats—Thob'J.iat Letter to the King of Great Britain, proposing a general
Peace oaths ... autocrats ..."
5. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIES IN AMERICA THE ENGLISH autocrats WHEN baffled Peter
Stuyvesant with an aching heart turned over to Colonel Richard Nicolls the ..."
6. Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1848)
"Napoleon and Alexander meet at Erfurt on 27th September, and separate in apparent
Friendship on \Tth October—Actual feelings of the autocrats— Their joint ..."