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anarch en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- English -arch English anarch From an- + -arch.

Meanings

1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
   • Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. 1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82:
   • Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old / With falt'ring speech and visage incomposed / Answer'd. 1667, John Milton, “Book LIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 988-990:
   • As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time. 1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred:
   • 1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302, One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,

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Translations (2)

ru анархи́ст (author of anarchy) · pt anarca (author of anarchy)