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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. despotism: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. despotism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. despotism: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. despotism: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Despotism, despotism: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. despotism: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Despotism: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. despotism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. despotism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. despotism: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. despotism: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. despotism: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Despotism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Despotism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. despotism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. despotism: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Despotism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. despotism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. despotism: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. despotism: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. despotism: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. despotism: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. despotism: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DESPOTISM: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  2. despotism: Nelson Political Science Glossary [home, info]
  3. despotism: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despotism: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despotism: Political [home, info]

Quick definitions (despotism)

noun:  dominance through threat of punishment and violence
noun:  a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

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Phrases that include despotism:   despotism despot, enlightened despotism, oriental despotism

Words similar to despotism:   absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, one-man rule, more...


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