• Anarch

    Full definition of anarch

    Noun

    anarch

    (plural anarchs)
    1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
      • 1830, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302,One rank'd in some recording page
        With the worst anarchs of the age,
        Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,
      • 1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82,Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
      • 1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred,As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time.
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