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   Anarchy , n. [Gr. : cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.]
    Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
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   Spread anarchy and terror all around.
   Cowper.
   
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   Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
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   There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reckoning of years.
   Fuller.
   
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