monocracy

monocracy
monocratic /mon'euh krat"ik/, adj.
/moh nok"reuh see, meuh-/, n., pl. monocracies.
government by only one person; autocracy.
[1645-55; MONO- + -CRACY; modeled on ARISTOCRACY, DEMOCRACY]

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