Both Uses of
despot
in
A Room of One's Own
- 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.†
Chpt 4despotic = typical of a ruler who abuses absolute power
- That whimsical despotism was in the nineteenth century too.†
Chpt 4 *despotism = a system of government with a ruler who has absolute power -- especially one who abuses that power
Definition:
a ruler with absolute power -- especially one who abuses that power