Anarchy
Anarchy ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Greek {not transcribed}: compare French anarchie. See Anarch.]
1.
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around.
2.
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then... an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reckoning of years.