DESPOTISM


Meaning of DESPOTISM in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Cecilia, viuda attacks despotism in the government.

It was the judges' commitment to freedom that was the main guarantee against despotism .

Ministerial despotism could not be profitably run by clerical reactionaries ignorant of the financial world.

That notion is quite compatible with a certain residue of benevolent despotism exercised by Tory squires.

The rationalist opposition replaced the murder of the imam with the triumph of reason as the barrier against despotism .

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