The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autocracy \Au*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Autocracies. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autocratie. See Autocrat.]
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Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy.
--South. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
--Barlow.(Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.]
--Dunglison.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of autocracy English)
Usage examples of "autocracies".
What's more, at best it would leave Iraq no better than the other regional autocracies.
There is good reason why we are concerned about the future stability of Egypt and the other Middle East autocracies.
The worst was, that the growing autocracies found support in the divisions which had grown within the cities themselves.
The oppressed Jew was entitled to all pity in the former times under brutal autocracies, for he was weak and friendless, and had no way to help his case.