Bible Dictionaries
Autonomy

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

(2):

(n.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Autonomy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/autonomy.html. 1828.