Definition of "monocracy" []

• Government or rule by a single person; autocracy. (noun)

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• "Professor Themba Sono, a political science lecturer and member of a tiny splinter party, feared for South Africa under the ANC, which he said was working towards a "monocracy", or one-party state."
• "The kind of monocracy that Gadhafi has created is not very much influenced by religion politically as much as it is influenced by religion socially, said Akl."
• "But his critics, including the main opposition party, the Socialists, said they would increase the power of the already semiroyal president, creating a "monocracy.""