Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Government by two persons; diarchy (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Government by two persons.
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- noun A
government by two persons.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have also records of peoples among which, at least for certain periods, the supreme authority was vested in a duarchy consisting of a man and a woman.
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In 1868, after revolution and restoration, the old order changed, and duarchy and feudalism passed away.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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The duarchy of Throne and Camp, with the Mikado in Ki [= o] to and the
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Then also was abolished the duarchy of Throne and Camp, of Mikado and Sh [= o] gun, and of the two capitals Ki [= o] to and Yedo, with the fountain of honor and authority in one and the fountain of power and execution in the other.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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It was a huge mass of clan-groups, loosely united under a duarchy, in which the military head was omnipotent, and the religious head only an object of [253] worship, -- the living symbol of a cult.
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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How long a time was required for this primal integration, under a patriarchal monarchy, we cannot know; but we have learned that the later integration, under a duarchy, occupied considerably more than a thousand years ....
Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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