Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, or of the nature of, monocracy; monarchic.
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- adjective Having complete
political power orcontrol ;autocratic
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Examples
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The assumption of State debts had really nothing "monocratic" or anti-popular about it -- nothing even tending to infringe the rights and liberties of the several States -- while it was clearly a statesmanlike measure from the national standpoint, tending at once to restore the public credit and cement the Union.
A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898
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Lincoln spoke of this as a disease of the "monocratic" spirit.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Bromwich 2011
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Clyde believed this, that Edgar had earned his monocratic power through the days and nights of his self-denial, the rejection of unacceptable impulses.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Clyde believed this, that Edgar had earned his monocratic power through the days and nights of his self-denial, the rejection of unacceptable impulses.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Clyde believed this, that Edgar had earned his monocratic power through the days and nights of his self-denial, the rejection of unacceptable impulses.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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In the crucial period of 1932-33 this concept of a strong, monocratic state was applied to the new reality of the Hitler regime.
TOTALITARIANISM KARL DIETRICH BRACHER 1968
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Screw them and their small minded monocratic society.
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