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anarch

American  
[an-ahrk] / ˈæn ɑrk /

noun

Archaic.

  1. anarchist.

anarch British  
/ ˈænɑːk /

noun

  1. archaic an instigator or personification of anarchy

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Etymology

Origin of anarch

First recorded in 1880–85; back formation from anarchy

Example Sentences

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A point for your anarch in art.

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An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

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Vladimir Sanine is not as powerful as Bazarov the anarchist, but he is a pendant, he is an anarch of the new order, neither a propagandist by the act, but a philosophical anarch who lazily mutters: "Let the world wag; I don't care so that it minds its own business and lets me alone."

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And now she was discovering what a disorganizer love is, what an anarch among plans, what a smasher of china.

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For a philosophical anarch, rather a quaint occupation!

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