A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
1 A thousand days of despotism are better than one day of anarchy?
2 Money, influence and perseverance were her allies; social despotism her only adversary.
3 The government of the revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
4 Rome was a despotism under Nero; so she was under the triumvirate.
5 No, the despotism has no use for it; you would lose money.
6 But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism .
7 Her old feudal liberties were gone, absorbed in the despotism of Madrid.
8 His whole life had been one struggle against despotism in the crown.
9 It is a sin to encourage him in such selfishness and despotism .
10 The rules of despotism are made for the government of corrupted men.
11 The Declaration of Independence meant war against the ever-growing encroachment of despotism .
12 No despotism can hold its own without the consent of the governed.
13 The villagers for the most part lived under a kind of despotism .
14 The Russian polity is no longer a despotism tempered by the cord.
15 Surely despotism is no longer tolerated in this stage of modern civilization.
16 Suppose he sank the navy, annihilated the army, set up a despotism ?
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Despotism в диалектах
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