Despotism is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPOTISM in dictionary:

NOUN:

absolute power; a state governed by a despot
the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way
a country or political system where the ruler holds absolute power
unfair or cruel government or behaviour
The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
dominance through threat of punishment and violence
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

rule by a despot; despotic exercise of power

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How to use DESPOTISM in a sentence

When they clamored for the blood of an anointed tyrant, they did not bargain for a renewed despotism more irksome and burdensome than the one they had suppressed.
They then gave a melancholy picture of the despotism and barbarity of some of the African princes, among whom the custom of sacrificing their own subjects prevailed.
The Revolution was succeeded by military despotism.
It was only among such a people that an overpowering spiritual despotism could be maintained.
The whole of this force, so redoubtable to the fears of despotism, consisted of only three thousand cavalry.
Otherwise, as voting must be voluntary, self-government would be impracticable and monarchy or despotism would remain as the only alternative.
Nor did the rule of feudalism differ less from that of a college of priests or a senate of patricians than from the despotism of an individual.
Once break the Union by political madness, reasons Scott the politician, and any attempt to restore it by military force would establish despotism and create anarchy.
The one represented by a despotism in which the people have no part, or the one represented by a system of government through which the will of the people freely acts.
By Despotism, his name has been recorded on the list of infamy, but future generations will number him among the noble and brave.

To-day the pressure of the war has turned us into the willing subjects of a despotism.
And she had so led him on, and had so forcibly made him feel the intensity of her will, that he had been fain still to submit to this despotism.
I know that the passions of men will take their course, that they are not to be controlled but by despotism, and that this melancholy truth is the pretext for despotism.
Thus it is seen that a despotism differs from a free government as to the reciprocal action that takes place between the people and the government.
Wealth, corruption, and despotism, are grouped together in history, as liberty has been grouped with equality, simplicity, hardihood, the mountain and the wilderness.
To deny an accused man the right to be heard in his own defense is an echo from the dark ages of brutal despotism.
Whenever this is wanting in government, government is a failure, because it is either Despotism or Anarchy.
Democracy and Despotism favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit, 66-u.
Our victories subjected the insurgents to legal obedience, not to the yoke of an arbitrary despotism.
Apes or any other man, but the result of the unjust laws which have ruled them like a complete despotism.
With them the question was not between despotism and liberty.
These few restrictions I hope are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism.
I do not recognize in this view of things the despotism of Turkey.
It required the merciless vigor of despotism to accomplish such an enterprise.
They were afraid, as they are now, of the despotism of democracy, and so they kept the conflict raging for over twenty years.
Civil warfare created by English policy and despotism maintained by English arms must surely be to any Englishman objects of equal abhorrence.
That is tyranny, and when farmers understand that Protection is one of the meanest forms of despotism, they will revolt.

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