1) Absolute power 2) Absolutism 3) Abuse of power 4) American web series 5) Autarchy 6) Authoritarianism 7) Autocracy 8) Caesarism 9) Cause for revolution 10) Cruel rule 11) Despotic abuse of authority 12) Despotism 13) Dictatorship 14) French word used in English 15) Linux game 16) MacOS game 17) Monocracy
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1) Absolutism 2) Authoritarianism 3) Caesarism 4) Despism 5) Despotism 6) Dictatorship 7) Domination 8) Monocracy 9) Oppression 10) Shogunate 11) Stalinism 12) Totalitarianism
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Aristotle's term for a political system* wherein one bad person holds all the power and authority. (Cf. kingship.)
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• (n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. • (n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency. • (n.) Cruel government...
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[TI-ran-nee] A system of government in which one person has all the power. Such a ruler is called a 'tyrant'. Tyrants were not necessarily bad rulers. Some peolpe think that Kypselos, the tyrant of Corinth, was a popular leader.
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(from the article `United Kingdom`) Power fell gradually into the hands of tyrants. Chief of these was Vortigern (c. 425), who, unlike earlier usurpers, made no attempt to become Roman ... ...casually mentions a man called Evarchus as `tyrant` of a small northwestern Greek polis called Astacus in the 420s . But for this chance...
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A form of government in which one person rules arbitrarily.
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tyranny (s), tyrannies (pl) 1. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administered; despotism. 2. An arbitrarily cruel exercise of power; a tyrannical act. 3. In Greek history, the office or the administration of a tyrant. 4. Severity; roughness. 5. Etymology: from Old French tyrannie, from Late Latin tyrannia, 'tyranny'; which came from ...
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a government ruled by a tyrant who uses his power oppressively or unjustly; an absolute ruler; from the Greek word tyrannos.
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arbitrary and unrestrained abuse of power.
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arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. · the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler. · a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler. · oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler. · undue severity or harshness. · a tyrannical act or proceeding.
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[SAT terms] dominance through threat of punishment and violence
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