Both Uses of
anarchy
in
Running in the Family
- They were a strange mixture of innocence and determination and anarchy, making home-made bombs with nails and scraps of metal and at the same time delighted and proud of their uniforms of blue trousers with a stripe down the side, and tennis shoes.†
p. 100.1 *
- They had retired early and, while the train witnessed small revolutions among the local military, everyone felt that the anarchic events should be kept from the sleeping foreigners.†
p. 154.4
Definition:
the complete absence of political authority; or more generally, complete absence of order