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/ˈoʊlɪgˌɑrk/ Listen

Oligarch

noun

(pl. oligarchs)

One of the rulers in an oligarchy.

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"Oligarch" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Chester has a right to exist in this romance, and Foulon a right to exist in a page of history almost as cloudy and disputable as a romance. What Dickens and other romancers do probably omit from the picture of the eighteenth-century oligarch is probably his liberality. It must never be forgotten that even when he was a despot in practice he was generally a liberal in theory. Dickens and romancers make the pre-revolution tyrant a sincere believer in tyranny; generally he was not. He was a sceptic about ...

— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton

... even at the expense of consistency and the unity of the Constitution. That great document, while constantly affirmed to be the most broad and liberal compact ever devised for the governance of man, has always been found to be narrow enough to serve the purposes of the slave oligarch and the make-shifts of the party in power; and has always afforded ample shelter and protection to the lazzaroni of Italy, the paupers of Ireland, and the incendiary spirits of other countries, but yet cannot shield a black man, a citizen and to the manor ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

Words linked to "Oligarch" : ruler, swayer, oligarchic