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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cecilia, viuda attacks despotism in the government.
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It was the judges' commitment to freedom that was the main guarantee against despotism .
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Ministerial despotism could not be profitably run by clerical reactionaries ignorant of the financial world.
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That notion is quite compatible with a certain residue of benevolent despotism exercised by Tory squires.
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The rationalist opposition replaced the murder of the imam with the triumph of reason as the barrier against despotism .