Meanings
plural anarchs
- The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
1830, George Gordon 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,
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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 as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 988-990Every 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.
1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82As 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Hellenic*ə-
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓- (ă-)
- Ancient Greekἀν- (an-)
- Englishan-
- Englishanarch
Translations
Portuguese anarca
- anarcaauthor of anarchy
Russian анархи́ст
- анархи́ст (anarxíst)author of anarchy
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Cite this entry
anarch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anarch
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