AUTOCRACIES
Noun
autocracies
plural of autocracy
Source: Wiktionary
AUTOCRACY
Au*toc"ra*cy, n.; pl. Autocracies. Etym: [Gr. autocratie. See
Autocrat.]
1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling
authority; supremacy.
The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of
objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.
2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing
in a single person, as of an autocrat.
3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state);
autonomy. Barlow.
4. (Med.)
Definition: The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive
powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital
principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition