Despot

Word DESPOT
Character 6
Hyphenation des pot
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Despot"

What do we mean by despot?

A ruler with absolute power. noun

A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant. noun

A Byzantine emperor or prince. noun

An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch. noun

An absolute ruler; one who governs according to his own will, under a recognized right or custom, but uncontrolled by constitutional restrictions or the wishes of his subjects; a sovereign who is himself theoretically the source of all law. noun

A tyrant; an oppressor; one who or a body which exercises lawful power tyrannically or oppressively, as either sovereign or master. noun

An honorary title of the Byzantine emperors, afterward of members of their families, and then conferred as a title of office on vassal rulers and governors: as, the despots of Epirus. noun

Synonyms Autocrat, dictator. noun

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. noun

One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant. noun

A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. noun

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) noun

A cruel and oppressive dictator noun

A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

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)

Synonyms and Antonyms for Despot

The word "despot" in example sentences

The word "despot" applies to rule by a single person, wielding absolute power, and we use it as a term of condemnation. ❋ Robert K. Massie (2011)

When one wins an election they were not given the office so "nepotic despot" is just name calling. ❋ Unknown (2002)

As the word therefore signifies simply the irresponsible rule of a single person, such person may be more correctly designated by the term despot, or usurper; although, in point of fact, the government was frequently of the most cruel and tyrannical character. ❋ Marcius Willson (N/A)

If you clip the Greek termination off it, it is the English word 'despot,' and it conveys all that that word conveys to us, not only a lord in the sense of a constitutional monarch, not only a lord in the polite sense of a superior in dignity, but a despot in the sense of being the absolute owner of a man who has no rights against the owner, and is a slave. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Mr. Mitchell, it matters little whether we have one or one hundred million tyrants if our rights are trampled; it is a mere question of taste whether you call the despot Czar, Dictator, or Ballot-box. ❋ Augusta Jane (1864)

As for the word despot I believe it suited George Bush more than any premier in the modern world but because of your biased view you will never understand what I mean. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the defect of it we must attribute the frequent civil wars, through which an Asiatic despot is obliged to cut his way to the throne of his fathers. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Constitution, and render himself permanent ruler according to his own will and pleasure, even though he might govern well, he could never inspire the people with any sentiment of duty towards him: his sceptre was illegitimate from the beginning, and even the taking of his life, far from being interdicted by that moral feeling which condemned the shedding of blood in other cases, was considered meritorious: he could not even be mentioned in the language except by a name ([word in Greek], despot) which branded him as an object of mingled fear and dislike. ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)

When Ben-Eliezer calls Mubarak a great patriot, is he perhaps conflating the term with despot? ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

That is nationalization in the style of a Latin American despot. ❋ Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. (2009)

And, to say the truth, where the caprice of a despot is the question in debate, there is no knowing upon what it is best to reckon. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

In addition to the democratic leaders, foremost President Bush among them, standing with him there near the mausoleum for Lenin will be Kim Jong Il of North Korea, whom the president has described as a despot -- he's been invited now; Niyazov, the dictator of Turkmenistan; Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus; and General Jaruzelski, the repressor of solidarity in Poland. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Locke had succeeded in restoring its pejorative sense to the word despot and its derivatives. ❋ MELVIN RICHTER (1968)

Furthermore, Bodin by identifying the Turkish Empire with Oriental despotism implanted the notion that under this form of government private and property rights were unknown, and that the despot was the legal owner of all individuals and goods which he could treat as he liked. ❋ MELVIN RICHTER (1968)

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