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Synonyms for anarchy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : an-er-kee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn ər ki

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Définition of anarchy

Origin :
  • 1530s, from French anarchie or directly from Medieval Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhia "lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was no archon), noun of state from anarkhos "rulerless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + arkhos "leader" (see archon).
  • Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you! [Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)]
  • noun lawlessness; absence of government
Example sentences :
  • Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • It may be true (on the whole it is) that this social machine we have made is better than anarchy.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Let this business of anarchy be dealt with and settled once and for all!
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • Anarchy is the law, not of the State only, but of private houses, and extends even to the animals.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Thus for the present all is anarchy and confusion in England.
  • Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX » by Various
  • You will oppose these generating ideas to 'Atheism' and321 'Anarchy.'
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • The state of anarchy which prevails must be witnessed to be understood.
  • Extract from : « Journal of a Residence at Bagdad » by Anthony Groves
  • May not despair, anarchy, and final submission be the bitter fruits?
  • Extract from : « Patrick Henry » by Moses Coit Tyler

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