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(1):

(n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

(2):

(n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

(3):

(n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.

(4):

(n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.