1) Absolute power or control 2) Absolute rule 3) Absolutism 4) Ascendance 5) Ascendancy 6) Ascendence 7) Ascendency 8) Authoritarianism 9) Autocracy 10) Control 11) Dictatorship 12) Dominance 13) Form of government 14) French word used in English 15) One-party rule 16) Repression 17) System espoused by tyrants
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1) Absolutism 2) Authoritarianism 3) Caesarism 4) Dictatorship 5) Monocracy 6) One man rule 7) Oppression 8) Shogunate 9) Stalinism 10) Totalitarianism 11) Tyranny
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- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. The word despotism means to `rule in the fashion of a despot` and does not necessarily require a singular `despot`, an individual. Despot comes from the Greek desp...
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Arbitrary and oppressive rule of a despot or autocrat, whose decisions are not controlled by law or political institutions; another term for tyranny. In ancient Greece,...
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An individual ruling through fear without regard to law and not answerable to the people.
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That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title. It is not, properly, a form of government.
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despotism Autocracy, tyranny; domination by a despot.
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the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority. · absolute power or control; tyranny. · an absolute or autocratic government. · a country ruled by a despot.
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[Philosophical isms] a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained
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[Literary terms] dominance through threat of punishment and violence
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