dyarchy

[dahy-ahr-kee]

noun

plural

dyarchies 

1. diarchy.

dyarchy

/ ˈdaɪɑːkɪ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of diarchy

Other Word Forms

• dyarchic adjective
• dyarchical adjective

Example Sentences

In the American republic’s slow transformation into a judicial-executive dyarchy, with a vestigial legislature that lets the major controversies get settled by imperial presidents and jurists, Anthony Kennedy occupied a particularly important role.

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A Chinese democracy is almost a dyarchy of majority and officialdom, the one revising and checking the other.

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The designation suited the early years of the Empire, in which a dyarchy of princeps and senate had been maintained.

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The division of the provinces between Augustus and the Senate in 27 B. C. had the effect of creating an administrative dyarchy, or joint rule of two independent authorities, for the empire.

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As one Provincial Governor remarked to me, "We are in reality skipping the dyarchy stage."

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