Autocracy1. (n.) Government by a single person or party having unlimited power.
2. (n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
3. (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
4. (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
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