Crossword-Solution: AUTOCRACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Autocracy | n. | Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. |
| Autocracy | n. | Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. |
| Autocracy | n. | Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. |
| Autocracy | n. | The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “AUTOCRACY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Rome under Augustus, e.g. | 1 answer |
| One-man rule. | 1 answer |
| government by one person | 3 answers |
| totalitarianism | 5 answers |
| Nazism | 9 answers |
| czarism | 9 answers |
| fascism | 9 answers |
| unlimited rule | 10 answers |
| Caesarism | 10 answers |
| ABSOLUTISM | 11 answers |
| totalitarian government | 12 answers |
| ABSOLUTE monarchy | 12 answers |
| overlordship | 14 answers |
| suzerainty | 14 answers |
| Despotism | 15 answers |
| dictatorship | 17 answers |
| regency | 18 answers |
| tyranny | 19 answers |
| governance | 32 answers |
| directorship | 52 answers |
| domination | 53 answers |
| Coercion | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with AUTOCRACY (5)
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy.
The mother of poverty, crime, insurrection, and war was inequality of conditions; which was the daughter of property, which was born of selfishness, which was engendered by private opinion, which descended in a direct line from the autocracy of reason.
The three articles of her creed are, she says, those of her country, Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationalism.
She could not relish the autocracy of “cheerful bums.” She forgot him as she tramped the outskirts of town.
Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has been eliminated.
Quotes with AUTOCRACY (3)
In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a…
It seems that Russia today — dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror — is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.
Talk about corporate greed and everything is really crucially beside the point, in my view, and really should be recognized as a very big regression from what working people, and a lot of others, understood very well a century ago. Talk about corporate greed is nonsense. Corporations are greedy by their nature. They’re nothing else — they are instruments for interfering with markets to maximize profit, and wealth and market control. You can’t make them more or less greedy; I …
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2022).