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n. A ruler with absolute power.

n. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.

n. A Byzantine emperor or prince.

n. An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.

n. A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

n. 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)

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

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

n. Synonyms Autocrat, dictator.

n. a cruel and oppressive dictator

"The word "despot" applies to rule by a single person, wielding absolute power, and we use it as a term of condemnation."

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