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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anarchy/ˈanəki/
noun
  • 1 a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of government or other controlling systems.
  • 2 a society or political system founded on the principles of anarchism.
– origin C16: via med. L. from Gk anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler’.



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