Autarchy
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A condition of absolute power. countable, uncountable
- 2 Alternative spelling of autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
- 3 a political system governed by a single individual wordnet
- 4 Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person). countable, uncountable
"Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled."
- 5 economic independence as a national policy wordnet
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- 6 Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence). countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).
See autarky.
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