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anarch

anarch noun: the author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

Noun

anarch (plural anarchs)

  1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
    • Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old / With falt'ring speech and visage incomposed / Answer'd.1667, John Milton, “Book LIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302

Examples of anarch in a sentence

  • Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch.1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82:
  • As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time.1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred:

Forms of anarch

pluralanarchs

Origin of anarch

From an- + -arch.

Questions about anarch

What does anarch mean?
Anarch means the author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
How do you use anarch in a sentence?
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch.
What part of speech is anarch?
Anarch is a noun.
What is the plural of anarch?
The plural of anarch is anarchs.

Words near anarch in the dictionary

  1. anaptyxis
  2. anapæst
  3. anapæsts
  4. anarakite
  5. anarboricity
  6. anarch
  7. anarcha-
  8. anarcha-feminism
  9. anarcha-feminisms
  10. anarcha-feminist
  11. anarcha-feministic

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