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autarch

n. A despotic ruler

Usage examples of "autarch".

Autarch was to my left, hanging limp between two evzones who had slung their long-barreled jezails aslant their backs.

Humans have been known to submit to many constraints: to rule by Autarchs, by Plutarchs, by the power seekers of the many Republics, by Oligarchs, by tyrant Majorities and Minorities, by the hidden suasions of Polls, by profound instincts and shallow juvenilities.

She had not yet given the autarch an heir, but he had spent much of his first regnal year traveling through all his lands, so none of the other wives dared even whisper rumors of unhappiness in the royal bed.

Saw the toughest officer of the Finest bow more to him than the autarch.

Having a link to one of the Favored, especially an important one like Luian, could make a world of difference in ones accommodations, in the skill and tact of ones assigned servants, in any number of things up to and including the continuing favor of the autarch himself.

Rajuna gave a correct bow with the hint of the Voltairian smile some autarchs affect.

The might of the Autarch, the god-king of Xis on the southern continent, is growing.

Because of the famous sacrifice of Habbili, son of Nushash, Xis had always been a kingdom in which the castrated were held in some esteem it was almost as established a route to the corridors of power as the priesthood In fact, the Favored ruled not just the Seclusion, but many of the bureaucracies of the Orchard Palace, so that the more daring soldiers of the autarchs army sometimes sourly jokedin private, of coursethat real men werent wanted in most of the palace, and would only be welcomed in the one place they were absolutely barred, the Seclusion.

Nakedness itself did not bother her, even that of a grown man she had often seen her father and brothers bathe themselves, and the people of Great Xis did not wear much even when they were walking in the crowded, sun-blasted streetsand the autarchs golden-brown limbs although long and thin were by no means ugly.

But you did not know that his family was one of the first to welcome the Autarch into Ulos, the first conquest of Xis in our lands of Eion.

All the continent of Xand above the great White Desert has fallen under the sway of Xis, and while his father and grandfather were content merely to conquer and exact tribute, this newest Autarch is not a gentle ruler to these subjects.

Then when some autarch (though they were not called autarchs then) hoped to recapture the dominion exercised by the first empire, they were gathered up by his servants, white-robed men who ransacked cocklofts and threw down the androsphinxes erected to memorialize the machines and entered the cubicula of moiraic women long dead.

All the while Maxellindis and me were together you were Autarch, but mostly they said you were off fighting the Ascians.

The chamber into which Barbatus ushered me was as marvelous to Severian the man--to the Autarch Severian, who had Thecla's life, and the old Autarch's, and a hundred more to draw upon--as the mausoleum had been to the child.

The chamber into which Barbatus ushered me was as marvelous to Severian the man—to the Autarch Severian, who had Thecla's life, and the old Autarch's, and a hundred more to draw upon—as the mausoleum had been to the child.