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despot
/ˈdɛs.pət/
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What does despot mean?
noun
- A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (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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The theorists, who claimed to effect it, had a power in their hands greater than that of any despot.
With sullen anger the despot entered the tea-room, but a sight waited him there which completely restored his humour.
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And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot?
Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.
In all this affair the language of Jackson has been that of a heartless despot, solely occupied with the preservation of his own authority.