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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

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Definition of Monocracy

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocracy

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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