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autocracy

[aw-tok-ruh-see] / ɔˈtɒk rə si /


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That sounds very similar to the perspective David Pepper offers in his book "Laboratories of Autocracy."

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

Autocracy forced many into tough ethical choices, and Stoicism offered guidance, often to the detriment of the autocrat.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

Autocracy is roughly defined as a system of government by one person with absolute power.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

He’s also expressed admiration for Nicolas I, the Crimean War-era czar whose ideological doctrine has been summed up as “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.”

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2014

"The Autocracy of Art," by Anne Vyne Tillery Renshaw, is the leading article of the magazine.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)




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