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dictatorship|dɪkˈteɪtəʃɪp|
[See -ship.]
1. The office or dignity of a dictator.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. 176 Bicause he would not have the dictatorship, and the other the consulship. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy I. 129 If any one were made Dictatour, he got most honour by it, that layd downe his Dictatourship soonest. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 167 They advised him [Leicester] also to a too hasty..hope of the Dictatorship, after the Example of the Prince of Aurange. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 331 Attilius-Regulus, who was called from the plough to the Dictatorship. 1835Alison Hist. Europe III. xv. §59. 323 A dictatorship is the last step in the despair of nations. 1838Arnold Hist. Rome I. 446 A dictatorship is the most natural government for seasons of extraordinary peril, when there appears a man fit to wield it.
2. Absolute authority in any sphere.
16..Dryden (J.), This is that perpetual dictatorship which is exercised by Lucretius, though often in the wrong. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. v. §9 Where an author..assumes an air of sovereignty and dictatorship. 1869Daily News 22 Dec., The whole movement was an attempt to set up an illegal dictatorship in the Church. 1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 100 His [Dryden's] literary dictatorship..remained unshaken.
attrib.1839Times 4 July, The House..rejected the first, or dictatorship clause of the bill. |