monocrat

[ mon-uh-krat ]

noun

1. a person favoring monocracy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of monocrat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; mono- + -crat

Example Sentences

For it was now quite obvious “that nothing can support them but the Colossus of the President’s merits with the people, and the moment he retires, that his successor, if a Monocrat, will be overborne by the republican sense....In the meantime, patience.”

From Literature

Ben Greenberg plays guitar in the Brooklyn band Zs, but he is also the monocrat of Hubble, a project of one.

From New York Times

Even if a monocrat were elected, he would be overborne by the republican sense of his constituents.

From Project Gutenberg

What would they have said to the proposal to create a monocrat ad hoc, an official permanently endowed by virtue of his office with the function of king-maker?

From Project Gutenberg

All the old spirit of 1776, rekindling the newspapers from Boston to Charleston, proves this; and even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• autocrat
• oppressor
• tyrant