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Anarchy
Pronunciation : An"arch*y
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Gr. anarchie. See Anarch.]
Definition : 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 reFuller.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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