dictatorless

dictatorless

English

Etymology

dictator +‎ -less

Adjective

dictatorless (not comparable)

1. (of a place) without a dictator.
   • 1985, Arthur Inman, The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, Harvard University Press (→ISBN), page 1457:

     We dispose of our heritage of wealth to assist and reinforce what remains of what we call "a free world," though the regime in the United Kingdom is very close to Communism and a failure, as all dictatorless socialist states are bound to be.

   • 2010, Richard Stites, Passion and Perception: Essays on Russian Culture, New Academia Publishing, LLC (→ISBN), page 160:

     Stalin himself, who spoke of the joy of Soviet life in 1936, clearly had no affection for pictures of happiness in a future dictatorless, “self-regulating” society and in images of mass consumerism.

   • 2017, Katsumi Fukasawa, Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World: Coexistence and Dialogue from the 12th to the 20th Centuries, Taylor & Francis (→ISBN), page 231:

     Under such a political order, the dictatorless republican government ruled by laymen was very stable.