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Meanings of despotic rule in English

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Usage of despotic rule in English
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So ended the despotic rule of gentlemen adventurers in the far north.
Lords of the North
2
Under the despotic rule of Louis Napoleon, the newspaper business has drooped.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
3
After a brief period of despotic rule, the Revolution in England worked a change.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Refer...
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Such is the practice of all arbitrary and despotic rule.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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Few monarchs have tried harder to justify their despotic rule.
Early European History
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It was a terrible example of Rao Khan's despotic rule.
The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
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With a stroke of the pen he threw aside the last prop to despotic rule.
The Vultures
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His benevolently despotic rule has been described on a preceding page (p. 474).
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
9
He was thwarted by foreign Powers, and deceived by his own instruments of despotic rule.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
10
In October, the constitutional party in Spain attempted to overturn the despotic rule of Ferdinand VII.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
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For the alternative before the Government then would be nothing but despotic rule pure and simple.
Freedom's Battle / Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings ...
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They are weary of the despotic rule of the Queen-mother and of the influence of these Florentines.
The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri ...
13
The king made these two men his principal advisers and through them carried on his despotic rule.
Early European History
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On the other hand, his tyrrany, the exigencies of despotic rule, compel him to incriminate his fatherland.
Hiero
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But what excited the most universal complaint was, the unlimited tyranny and despotic rule of the country committees.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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In this manner Augustus, by the aid of his proconsuls, held a despotic rule over all his dominions.
A Smaller History of Rome
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