Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who supports or who is in favor of despotism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A supporter of despotism.
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- noun A
supporter ofdespotism .
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Examples
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Until our Liberal friends have faced this fact, and done something themselves to remedy it, they will not begin to be ready for debate with a lucid Latin despotist, who disputes both their facts and the fundamental doctrines.
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And slowly, the new masters become just like the former (eg, the NP, or any other African despotist government), ruling even more harshly than before.
Muti 2009
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