Dictionary

monocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From mono- + -cracy.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare, uncountable) Synonym of autocracy.
   • In monocracies, the extent of closure is still greater. 2015, M. Steven Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics:
   • A monocracy, as traditionalists called it, also seemed dangerous. 1991, William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, volume 1:
   • The question here arises: Shall it be transferred to one or to many; or shall the state, in regard to the persons who constitute its government, be a monocracy or an aristocracy? 1869, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, The Science of Rights, page 279:

Forms

Deriveds

monocratic · monocratically · monocrat

Synonyms

autocracy