Crossword-Solution: DESPOTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Despotism | n. | The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. |
| Despotism | n. | A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “DESPOTISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| unfair or cruel government or behaviour | 1 answer |
| statism | 1 answer |
| paternalism | 1 answer |
| one man rule | 1 answer |
| System espoused by tyrants | 1 answer |
| DESPOTIC state | 1 answer |
| Authoritarian rule | 1 answer |
| Absolute rule | 4 answers |
| omnicompetent state | 5 answers |
| totalitarianism | 5 answers |
| AUTARCHY | 5 answers |
| fascism | 9 answers |
| czarism | 9 answers |
| Nazism | 9 answers |
| unlimited rule | 10 answers |
| Caesarism | 10 answers |
| ABSOLUTISM | 11 answers |
| totalitarian government | 12 answers |
| ABSOLUTE monarchy | 12 answers |
| autocracy | 15 answers |
| dictatorship | 17 answers |
| tyranny | 19 answers |
| high hand | 31 answers |
| domination | 53 answers |
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Sentences with DESPOTISM (5)
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
What a proud moment it was for Elfride then! She was ruling a heart with absolute despotism for the first time in her life.
For the peasant was still religious at heart with a naive unquestioning faith--more characteristic of the fourteenth or fifteenth century than of to-day--and still fervently aspired to God although sunk in superstition and held down by the despotism of the Greek Church.
The despotism and hatred of Liberalism which animated the Continental Governments had had the effect of driving to our shores a number of men who might have made excellent citizens were they not soured by the recollection of all that they had undergone.
The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a 'religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire.' It must have been like getting home again; it was home with an advantage, in fact, for it lacked Louis XIV.
Quotes with DESPOTISM (3)
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the acts of citizens and to decide whether or not they conform to the law as written; then the standard of the just or the unjust, which is to be the norm of conduct for the ignorant as well as for the philosophic citizen, is not a matter of controversy but of fact; then only are citizens not subject to the petty tyrannies of the many which are the more cruel a…
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is repr…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1990–2022).