anarch

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It was he who invented anarch for the spirit of anarchy or disorder, and no one has found a better word to express the idea.

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Now Emerson was an anarch who flouted the conventions of art and life.

From American Sketches 1908 by Whibley, Charles

But the tricksy god of irony has decreed that, if he lasts long enough, every anarch will end as a conservative, upon which consoling epigram let us pause.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

That hour the Mountain old,An anarch throned ’mid ruins flung himselfIn madness forth on all his winds and floods,An omnipresent wrath! 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by De Vere, Aubrey