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despotism

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Noun

1. absolutism

2. tyranny, dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dictatorship

3. absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, autocracy, autarchy

Usage
Despotism promotes dyadic cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies - Nature
Wannabe despot, dashing diplomat or boring back-office swot? Greece’s founding father divides opinion - The Guardian
Life, Liberty, Property #148: The Bill of Rights and the Rise of Soft Despotism - heartland.org
Friday essay: John Keane on demagogues, despots and the rise of ‘phantom democracies’ - The Conversation
Greece's only Byzantine palace reopens after 42 years of restoration work - The Jerusalem Post
When the Republic Almost Fell - Steady
Russian Reformers Must Call For Different Kind Of Strong State Or Risk Continuation Of Despotism – OpEd - Eurasia Review
Despotism in America - telos-eu.com
The Death of Khamenei Is the Death of Religious Despotism and the End of the Velayat-e Faqih Regime - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI
Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals - Phys.org
The radical Left’s merger with Islamist despotism - Fathom Journal
How China’s 5,100-year-old dams challenge Western narratives on despotism - South China Morning Post
Jesus showed how to defy despots - Religion News Service
What animals can teach us about overcoming tyranny - BBC
How Iran became a despotism - Workers' Liberty
Maryam Rajavi Declares Ali Khamenei’s Death the End of Religious Despotism in Iran - Iran Freedom
Demagogues and Despots: Remaking the People - thepoint.com.au
There's no room for joking in authoritarian societies: despotism suppresses social play in primates - UNIPI
Reza Pahlavi Glorifies the Legacy of Repression, Corruption, and Despotism - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI
I read Gianni Infantino’s name-dropping, despot-fluffing book so you don’t have to | Barney Ronay - The Guardian
'Screw Them... We're Not Giving Into Despotism' Schiff Speaks Out Against Latest Trump Admin Attack Android (RxEaz0OTkN) - Fathom Journal
Opinion | Real Despots Hijack Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times
JOHN FIGLIOZZI: We can disagree over policy, but not over despotism - The Daily Gazette
US lawmaker calls Khamenei’s 'despotism a cancer to the region' | Iran International - ایران اینترنشنال
China visit: growing anarchy and despotism - The Express Tribune
Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot - The Economist
At Davos, the World Watched the Rantings of a Despot - The Nation
Russia’s Paranoid Despot and His Secret Police - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Canada is sleepwalking into soft despotism - Frontier Centre For Public Policy
The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's attack on democracy - The London School of Economics and Political Science
Like Hungarians, Americans, too, could say 'no' to a despot | Op-Ed - The Seattle Times
EU cooperation with the Taliban legitimises this despotic (and despicable) regime - EUobserver
In the Despot Archives | Helen Epstein, Lauren Kane - The New York Review of Books
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The death of a jihadist despot - The Jerusalem Post
Imperialism v Fundamentalism: Empathizing With Iran Must Recognize the Internal Struggle Against Religious Despotism - American Kahani
Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning in 1840 about despotism in democratic countries - Contando Estrelas
Meeks, Amo, Garcia Demand Investigation into Trump Despot-Whisperer Witkoff’s Sketchy Business Dealings - House.gov
BOWLER: Canada is sleepwalking into soft despotism - Winnipeg Sun
A timely – and hopeful – analysis of the global erosion of democracy - SMH.com.au
Current Events Remind Us That Freedom Is Not Free: The U.S. Has Drifted Dangerously Close To Despotism - Colorado Times Recorder
Opinion: The Meaning of the War With Iran’s Despotic Regime - Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
Maryam Rajavi Declares: “The Death of Khamenei Is the End of Religious Despotism” - irannewsupdate.com
Sabine Dullin, Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie - OpenEdition Journals
My dog Arthur is a despot and now I can’t put shoes on - The Age
Condemning Cuba While Embracing Arab Despots - St Vincent Times
Africa’s ruthless despots just won’t go away - The Telegraph
Dems may go too far for illegals, the EU’s ‘Digital Service’ despots and other commentary - New York Post
Was Maduro Jewish? All you need to know on the deposed despot - www.israelhayom.com
Curtain of darkness: How British empire denied 'light of knowledge' to further its despotism (From the Archives) - India Tribune - Chicago
THE MYTH OF THE DESPOT AS A STRONG LEADER – Mohan guruswamy - समता मार्ग
Despots will keep wreaking havoc until our political systems change - The National Scot
A civil stand against the despots and demagogues - Daily Maverick
From dinosaurs to despots: Mexico before the 20th century - Mexico News Daily
Bit Despotism: The Genesis of High-Tech Monopolies - Monthly Review
Exiled foreign despot still holds ANU honour - Canberra CityNews
Nawab Nehru’s Undying Love for Muslim Despotism Exposed Threadbare - The Dharma Dispatch
Despotism at the Door - The Bulwark
Democratic despotism: The left moves from censored to compelled speech - The Hill
Tocqueville and Democratic Despotism in Modern Democracies - Beyond the Horizon ISSG
Against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s technocratic despotism - Washington Examiner
The radical philosopher inspiring Vance and Trump’s descent into despotism - The i Paper
Avoiding despotism must start well before we turn to courts as a last line of defense. - Boston Review
Despotism Beckons as Georgia Jails Opponents - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
The Despotism of Money - Commonweal Magazine
Trump aims for one-party rule — and puts despotism at our doorstep - Salon.com
The Despotism of Isaias Afewerki | Alex de Waal - The Baffler
North Korea could become the first gender-swapping despotism - Yahoo
The Way Out of 'Soft Despotism' - The Heritage Foundation
A Revolutionary Fantasy That Speaks to Our Current Descent into Despotism - The Indypendent
Mamdani says he still believes Trump is a ‘fascist' and ‘despot' after meeting - NBC New York
Despotism (1946) - The Public Domain Review
Trump’s Despotic Reign is the Antithesis of Genuine Republicanism - IDN-InDepthNews
Trump’s Big Speech: Democracy, Demagogy & Despotism - Washington Spectator
Benjamin Franklin foresaw the US’s descent into despotism - The Guardian
Despotism Is All Around Us - Tufts Now
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Daniel Klein - Law & Liberty
Israel is at a crucial crossroads: it can save itself or slide into despotism | Dahlia Scheindlin - The Guardian
As a boy, I fled despotism in Cuba.Now I’m fighting it here in America. - The Washington Post
Un-Enlightened Despotism - Hasht-e Subh Daily
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism: An Interview with Orlando Figes - Quillette
THE NIGHTMARE OF DESPOTISM | The Atlantic - news - Magzter
Despotism is all around us: the warnings of Montesquieu - Aeon
Book Review: The New Despotism, John Keane (2020) - Beyond the Horizon ISSG
The New Despotism by John Keane - Open Letters Review
Putin’s Erstwhile Legalism Has Given Way to Despotism - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Taliban Rule is Not Authoritarian but Despotic Totalitarianism - Foreign Policy in Focus
The Possibility of Despotism in America - The Library of Economics and Liberty
Book Review: The New Despotism by John Keane - LSE Review of Books - The London School of Economics and Political Science
The Era of Soft Campus Despotism Is Far from Over - National Review
Gordon Humphrey: In New Hampshire’s historic cradle of liberty despotism rears its head - UnionLeader.com
JS Mill and the despotism of progress Conservatives have been fooled by his vision of liberty - UnHerd
Egypt’s Long Walk to Despotism - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy -
Opinion | Turkey reaches a new low of despotism - The Washington Post
The Shah’s Despotism Laid the Foundation for the Clerical Dictatorship in Iran - Iran Focus
Despotism Goes Global - City Journal
Opinion | Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus (Published 2020) - The New York Times
Why America is vulnerable to a despot - The Economist
Review: India’s descent into despotism - Chatham House
The Despots’ Dilemma: Case Studies of Failing Dictators - Encyclopedia Geopolitica
Opinion | The Nobel honors a hero — and Venezuela’s struggle for freedom - The Washington Post
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'despotism'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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