Synonyms for autocrat
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : aw-tuh-krat |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ təˌkræt |
Définition of autocrat
Origin :- 1803, from French autocrate, from Greek autokrates "ruling by oneself, absolute, autocratic," from autos- "self" (see auto-) + kratia "rule," from kratos "strength, power" (see -cracy). First used by Robert Southey, with reference to Napoleon. An earlier form was autocrator (1789), used in reference to the Russian Czars. Earliest form in English is the fem. autocratress (1762).
- noun dictator
- The implicit obedience this autocrat commanded set them in a whirl.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- It appeased and disarmed this anarchist who was also an autocrat.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- She has always had the germ of the ruler and autocrat in her soul.
- Extract from : « Fair to Look Upon » by Mary Belle Freeley
- The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.
- Extract from : « Home Rule » by Harold Spender
- Alexander, as autocrat of all the Russias, did not suffer any authority but his own.
- Extract from : « The Story of Russia » by R. Van Bergen, M.A.
- But when this autocrat had made up his mind, objections were brushed aside.
- Extract from : « The Story of Russia » by R. Van Bergen, M.A.
- Continued rule for half a generation must turn a man into an autocrat.
- Extract from : « The War in South Africa » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- He found it extremely difficult, autocrat as he was, to put it into words.
- Extract from : « The Arbiter » by Lady F. E. E. Bell
- There was no county in which he was more of an autocrat than in Elbert.
- Extract from : « Robert Toombs » by Pleasant A. Stovall
- "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" was the first of the series.
- Extract from : « Over the Teacups » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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