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anarchy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf F. anarchie. See {Anarch}.] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around --Cowper. 2. Hence confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: anarchy n : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) [syn: {lawlessness}]
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