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despotism

noun

des·​po·​tism ˈde-spə-ˌti-zəm How to pronounce despotism (audio)
1
a
: oppressive absolute (see absolute sense 2) power and authority exerted by government : rule by a despot
an excess of law is despotism, from which free men revolt S. B. Pettengill
b
: oppressive or despotic exercise of power
educational despotism
2
a
: a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power : absolutism
b
: a despotic state
enduring the despotism of the czars

Example Sentences

by the end of the 20th century many countries around the world had rejected despotism in favor of democracy
Recent Examples on the Web Zelensky has spent his days under attack convincingly presenting himself and Ukraine to the rest of the world as standing the ground for the collective interests and future of sovereign self-determination against despotism. The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 Yet the despotism and nihilism of Marxism, Stalin’s cause, is ultimately indistinguishable from the power outlook at the heart of Putinism. Bartle Bull, WSJ, 4 May 2022 Tocqueville called this enervated condition democratic despotism, the soft, passive twin of majority tyranny. Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022 The compendium of National Review journalism expressing a trenchant hostility to despotism is legendary. Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022 Muratov, in his Nobel lecture, cast a free press as a counteragent for such despotism, likening journalists to dogs that keep the caravan of society moving forward. Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022 The public position against Russian Federation in all areas is a loud cure for despotism. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022 Free societies have an obligation to demonstrate their revulsion toward despotism. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

see despot

First Known Use

circa 1727, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of despotism was circa 1727

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