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autocracy
(redirected from Absolute ruler)

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autocracy
1. government by an individual with unrestricted authority
2. the unrestricted authority of such an individual
3. a country, society, etc., ruled by an autocrat


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The National Register of Big Trees lists the biggest known trees and can rarely claim absolute knowledge of the absolute ruler of a given species.
Hitler was the absolute ruler of an immensely powerful country, while Ahmadinejad is but one leader of a second- or third-ranking state.
In his production notes to the film, Arcand sounds exactly like his character Remy in bemoaning the state of a world now led by a single superpower, surrounded by hordes of smaller, desperate nations: "The American Empire is the world's absolute ruler.
 
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