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a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

despot = a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

Today's benign dictator is replaced by tomorrow's despot.
Sensible despots have never confined that precaution to women:
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

despots = a ruler with absolute power

...peace that spared the despots and absurdly married the U.S. military with the same soldiers who had been the instruments of torture and terror.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'

despots = rulers with absolute power — especially those who abuses that power

In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne,
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

despot = a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

During his time there had been a rule of 'enlightened despotism,' similar to that in the reign of Louis XIV almost a hundred years earlier.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power

They think school's a despotic system of indoctrination, designed to crush the spirit and stamp out creativity.
Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant

despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power

...under absolute Despotism,
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

Rather than cherish that medal, Madame, you should regard it as a symbol of your unwitting complicity with this despot who worked to death and brutalized and eventually exterminated thousands and thousands of African peoples.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

despot = a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

In addition, though I had researched the facts of the regime, and events pertaining to Trujillo's thirty-one-year despotism, I sometimes took liberties—by changing dates, by reconstructing events, and by collapsing characters or incidents.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power — especially one who abuses that power

They created a system of government with checks and balances so that no branch of government would become despotic.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Luke was appointed to wait upon his bed-ridden master, whose despotic habits were greatly increased by exasperation at his own helplessness.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Like machines, they dumbly moved about the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.
George Orwell -- 1984
PROKTOPHANTASMIST I tell you, spirits, to your face, I give to spirit-despotism no place; My spirit cannot practise it at all.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Go to Lucas Beaumanoir, and say thou hast renounced thy vow of obedience, and see how long the despotic old man will leave thee in personal freedom.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Have I mentioned how much I can't stand despotic psychopaths?
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn't outdo Mobutu.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
It was upon the cardinal that all the responsibility fell, for one is not a despotic minister without responsibility.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

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