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anarchy
/ˈæn.ɚ.ki/
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What does anarchy mean?
noun
- The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
- A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
- Confusion in general; disorder.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (rare) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
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Bonaparte immediately replaced the bloody anarchy in which the Republic had for ten years been writhing by a period of order.
It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that it was stalking abroad through the quarter.
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He belongs, in other words, to the good school, the only school, all aberrations from nature being so much truancy and anarchy.
We have seen the natural course of things produce disastrous effects, and create anarchy in production, war for markets, and piracy in competition.
The Elector, however, must needs leave him there for a time, having to depart forthwith to Poland, then almost in a state of anarchy.