despot
IPA: dˈɛspʌt
noun
- A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
- (historical) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)
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Examples of "despot" in Sentences
- He was forced by the time to be a despot.
- Both saw the wages system as a despotism.
- Wonderland is ruled by the despotic queen.
- Amadeo was in contact with the Despot Thomas Palaeologus.
- Jakup Shpata was the last despot of the Despotate of Arta.
- The song also refers to Lincoln as the tyrant and the despot.
- Despotism was at the core with either the king or with Cromwell.
- The beauty of tidiness is used as a justification for despotism.
- The society was hierarchical, with the sultan serving as despot.
- I am confused about the difference between a despotism and a dictatorship.
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