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adj. - Belonging to or having the characteristics of an absolute ruler adj. - Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule.

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  • Moved from a feudal to a despotic order
  • The US is approaching what I call despotic, with police carrying out absolutisic policy in the streets among our children.
  • I'd not use the word despotic, there was a lot of popular complicity out there.
  • ( "The British government rules the Burmese in despotic fashion," he wrote.
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