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Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

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  1. n. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
  2. n. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
  3. n. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
  4. n. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
  5. n. a political system governed by a single individual
  6. n. a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
  7. n:100 n. a political system governed by a single individual n. a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual