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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : aw-tuh-krat-ik or aw-tuh-krat-i-kuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɔ təˈkræt ɪk or ˌɔ təˈkræt ɪ kəl |
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Définition of autocratic
Origin :- 1823, from French autocratique, from autocrate, from Greek autokrates (see autocrat). Earlier autocratoric (1670s) was directly from Greek autokratorikos. Autocratical is attested from 1801.
- adj holding power exclusively
- Cyrus is made to behave rather like the autocratic father of a goody story-book.
- Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
- The answer was covered by the autocratic clang on the engine-room gong.
- Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
- At present, an autocratic bureaucracy with no one man at the top.
- Extract from : « Equation of Doom » by Gerald Vance
- Is it likely that such feel the autocratic pressure of their Tsar?
- Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
- They charged Susan with lust for power and autocratic control.
- Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
- L'État c'est moi was the autocratic maxim of Louis Quatorze.
- Extract from : « Albert Gallatin » by John Austin Stevens
- Mr. Harling, therefore, seemed to me autocratic and imperial in his ways.
- Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
- The pottery-works were run on a liberal if autocratic basis.
- Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
- Something struggled with the autocratic criticism in her eyes.
- Extract from : « The Patrician » by John Galsworthy
- This old fellow had nothing of the other's alert, autocratic self-sufficiency.
- Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
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