Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An autocrat; a dictator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic An autocrat.
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- noun Archaic form of
autocrat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The assassins may not have wanted to create a democracy, but that democracy will not likely come about with the autocrator still in power exceptions involving King Juan Carlos I of Spain not counted.
Presidents Don’t Matter, but Dictators Do - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Putin is definitely on the way to establish himself as the new autocrator of all Russias.
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Putin is definitely on the way to establish himself as the new autocrator of all Russias.
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And all the repression mechanisms destined to preserve the autocrator are unavoidably put into place.
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And all the repression mechanisms destined to preserve the autocrator are unavoidably put into place.
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Themistocles was elected strategos autocrator at Athens and became its most powerful political figure.
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A general-in-chief (strategos autocrator) was sometimes promoted over the others.
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