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Meanings of despotical in English

Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot.

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Examples for "dictator"
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Overthrowing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 achieved important American strategic objectives.
The Guardian
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Reports from early today speculated that the former dictator had been captured.
The Irish Times
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You know, I actually think he'd make a good dictator, that man.
Another life altogether: a novel
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Former military dictator of Burma Ne Win has died under house arrest.
The Irish Times
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A caretaker government was announced within an hour of the dictator's capture.
The Guardian
1
Any despotic government must have the reliable support of toadies and traitors.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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So ended the despotic rule of gentlemen adventurers in the far north.
Lords of the North
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The young girl was pregnant, and they were fleeing a despotic regime.
The Guardian
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America is the stronghold of the popular principle, Europe of the despotic.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
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The despotic course of the king raised up enemies on all sides.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
Usage of despotical in English
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The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great; that of a Tartar khan altogether despotical.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Whether oppression, injustice, and cruelty, are the only evils which attend on despotical government, may be considered apart.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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Oppression and cruelty are not always necessary to despotical government; and even when present, are but a part of its evils.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
Second Treatise of Government
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His wooing had been of the most despotical and patronizing kind; not the kind that a proud girl would have put up with.
The Mating of Lydia
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But it is the highest refinement of a despotical government, to rule by simple commands, and to exclude every art but that of compulsion.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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Such a council can command obedience only by the military force with which they are accompanied; and their government is, therefore, necessarily military and despotical.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases.
Second Treatise of Government
Despotical through the time