Hypertext Webster Gateway: "anarchy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See {Anarch}.]
1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is
no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political
confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it,
in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
anarchy
n : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
a failure of government) [syn: {lawlessness}]
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