Word Meanings - AUTOCRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Dunglison. (more info) 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

Additional info about word: AUTOCRACY

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Dunglison. (more info) 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South. 2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. 3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty ; autonomy. Barlow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUTOCRACY)

• Supremacy
• Sovereignty
• nonsubjection
• lordship
• autocracy
• Tyranny
• Despotism
• inclemency
• persecution

Related words: (words related to AUTOCRACY)

• INCLEMENCY
  1. The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall. 2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather);
• LORDSHIP
  1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence , a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge , etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and
• SUPREMACY
  The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual
• TYRANNY
  1. The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for
• AUTOCRACY
  The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Dunglison. (more info) 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
• PERSECUTION
  1. The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley. 2. The state or condition of being persecuted.
• DESPOTISM
  1. The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. "The despotism of vice." Byron. 2. A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy. Despotism . . .
• SOVEREIGNTY
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• OVERLORDSHIP
  Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others. J. R. Green.