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synonyms for self-government

  • autonomy
  • discretion
  • flexibility
  • immunity
  • independence
  • sovereignty
  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • ability
  • bent
  • compass
  • exemption
  • facility
  • independency
  • indulgence
  • latitude
  • laxity
  • leeway
  • liberty
  • margin
  • opportunity
  • play
  • power
  • prerogative
  • privilege
  • profligacy
  • range
  • rein
  • right
  • rope
  • scope
  • sweep
  • swing
  • unrestraint
  • carte blanche
  • elbowroom
  • free rein
  • full play
  • full swing
  • laissez faire
  • own accord
  • plenty of rope
  • rampancy

antonyms for self-government

MOST RELEVANT
  • dependence
  • extreme
  • impotence
  • inability
  • incompetence
  • limitation
  • restraint
  • weakness
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How to use self-government in a sentence

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOU
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOE
The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
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WORDS RELATED TO SELF-GOVERNMENT

  • freedom
  • liberty
  • self-determination
  • self-government
  • self-rule
  • sovereignty
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