Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monocracy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monocracy \Mo*noc"ra*cy\, n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.]
Government by a single person; undivided rule. --Sydney
Smith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monocracy
n : a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute
dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or
opposition etc.) [syn: {dictatorship}, {absolutism}, {authoritarianism},
{Caesarism}, {despotism}, {one-man rule}, {shogunate}, {Stalinism},
{totalitarianism}, {tyranny}]
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