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Definition
a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power
- That whimsical despotism was in the nineteenth century too.4 (30% in)
- Lord Dudley, THE TIMES said when Lady Dudley died the other day, 'a man of cultivated taste and many accomplishments, was benevolent and bountiful, but whimsically despotic.4 (29% in)
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