Despotism - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈdespətɪzəm|
Brit.
|ˈdespətɪz(ə)m|
noun
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence (syn: absolutism, tyranny)
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (syn: absolutism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, monocracy, totalitarianism, tyranny)
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (syn: absolutism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, monocracy, totalitarianism, tyranny)
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...by the end of the 20th century many countries around the world had rejected despotism in favor of democracy...
In France the first enemy of the principles of despotism was Voltaire.
They saw that a civil war could end only in a despotism.
The ruin of the empire was caused by the loss of freedom and the growth of despotism.
Ample securities had been provided against despotism.
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