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What is the noun for autocracy?

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autocratrix
  1. A female autocrat.
  2. (in particular, historical) The enlightened despot Catherine II of Russia, who reigned from 1762 to 1796 as empress and autocratrix of all the Russias.
autocrat
  1. An absolute ruler with infinite power.
  2. A title borne by some such monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Catherine had innumerable lovers and did not find it contradictory to her enlightenment that she ruled Russia as an absolute autocrat.”
      “The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch.”
      “Only at home did he remove the mask of the iron autocrat and become a warm personality.”
autocracy
  1. (uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
  2. (countable) An instance of this government.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I hope that the council will now return to democracy rather than autocracy.”
      “Meanwhile, the Maoists appealed for a united front against feudal autocracy.”
      “For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.”
autocratship
  1. (rare) The state of being an autocrat; autocracy.
autocrator
autocratrices
  1. plural of autocratrix
autocrators
autocracies
  1. plural of autocracy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Our government and the corporations whose investments it protects have propped up corrupt monarchies and single-party autocracies.”
      “And states in transition are more likely than either stable democracies or autocracies to become involved in wars.”
      “There can be and have been intolerant democracies and reasonably tolerant autocracies.”
autocrats
  1. plural of autocrat
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Somewhere even the dictators and autocrats who send ambassadors to dialogue with ambassadors from free states know that to be true.”
      “Democrats can build state capacity, probably more effectively than autocrats.”
      “Never before have the ruling autocrats been as naked in the eyes of their publics as they are now.”
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