DESPOTISM in a Sentence

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1. Neither despotism nor terrorism.
2. And, I declare, its perfect despotism.
3. You're an advocate of patriarchal despotism.
4. The veil fell from his hardness and despotism.
5. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESPOTISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
despotism
 n.  government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, and prejudice.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
2  I admit that Russia has its beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
3  Neither despotism nor terrorism.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
4  He arrives with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
5  Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  You're an advocate of patriarchal despotism.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  And, I declare, its perfect despotism.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
9  The veil fell from his hardness and despotism.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Yet in spite of all dangers and difficulties, the hearts of the fugitives were light within them, for every step increased the distance between them and the terrible despotism from which they were flying.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
11  Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
12  Chion and Leonidas of Heraclea, disciples of Plato, conspired against the despots Clearchus and Satirus.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
13  And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  Ever since he destroyed Hitler's despotism, our political leaders haven't needed to be giants.
2  Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
3  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
4  Eight years later, after a photoshoot with Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president, and a humiliating World Cup exit, Mr Ozil has become a national scapegoat.
5  Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms.