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Definition
a ruler with absolute power — especially one who abuses that power
- These hands and feet were small; she wore a shriveled sort of lisle on her legs and her slippers were gray—ah, the gray of that felt, the gray despotic to souls—with pink ribbons.Chapter 1 (7% in)
- When has such damage been done by the gaze and so much awful despotism belonged to the eyes?Chapter 15 (53% in)
There are no more uses of "despot" in The Adventures of Augie March.
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