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ANARCHY; Pronunciation[/url][an-er-kee] Pronunciation Key[/url] - Show IPA Pronunciation[/url]
1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy. 3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. 4. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
[Origin: 1530–40; (< MF anarchie or ML anarchia) < Gk, anarchía lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to ánarch(os) leaderless (an- [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=an-"]an-[/url]1 + arch(ós) leader + -os adj. suffix) + -ia [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=-y"]-y[/url]3]
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1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy. 3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. 4. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
[Origin: 1530–40; (< MF anarchie or ML anarchia) < Gk, anarchía lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to ánarch(os) leaderless (an- [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=an-"]an-[/url]1 + arch(ós) leader + -os adj. suffix) + -ia [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=-y"]-y[/url]3]
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