DESPOT


Meaning of DESPOT in English

noun

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He was seen as an enlightened despot pursuing liberal policies in the face of dogmatic reaction from priests and landlords.

In totalitarian states absolute control of information and the armed forces is the key to the survival of the despot .

Qin was a cruel despot who burned books and had scholars put to death.

The president is finely educated and is capable of talking like a professor and behaving like a despot .

The world can not go to war every time a despot grabs a piece of land.

Unarguably, the father in the poem is a despot , and the daughter is humiliated.

Unluckily our moral life is too complex for any single moral principle to be a despot over all the others.

Woman is not the passive chattel that the tussles of despots, described in the last chapter, have implied.

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