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Definitions
a cruel and oppressive dictator
Word origin
Borrowed from French autocrate, itself from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (autokratḗs, “sovereign”), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) (combining form of αὐτός (autós)) + κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”) + -ης (-ēs). By surface analysis, auto- + -crat.
Used in a sentence
“Your salary is high; you are to have apartments in the house; and to be the autocrat of the library, where, I shrewdly suspect, your reign will be undisturbed.”
“We’ve gotten used to headlines predicting the demise of democracy. While the threats we face are real, a glance around the globe shows that it’s autocrats who are in retreat right now.”
“If Trump defies the Court, there is little to restrain him from acting as an autocrat, given the supplication of Republicans in Congress.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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