dictatoraten.
/dɪkˈteɪtərət/, U.S. /dɪkˈteɪdərət/ The office of a dictator; the (period of) rule of a dictator. Also: a group of individuals viewed as acting with absolute power in the manner of a dictator.
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1815 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (rev. ed.) IV. ii. vi. 124 It was thought that his abdicating the dictatorate..was owing to his not chusing to meet the tempest that was breaking out on behalf of this demagogue.
1866 T. Carlyle Inaug. Addr. Edinb. 179 Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, or Dictatorate if you will let me name it so.
1868 Goldw. Smith in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 531/1 Cicero accepted and..served under the dictatorate of Cæsar.
1917 Frederick (Maryland) Post 6 Feb. 1/5 The inner circle of the administration, who form [printed from] the species of dictatorate to which the British Empire looks for the successful conclusion of the present war.
1937 Trans. & Proc. Japan Soc. 34 108 It will be remembered that he had been made dictator shortly after the accession in 1645, but the dictatorate had never flourished.
2000 Gleaner (Nexis) 28 Mar. He said the political dictatorate made promises to assist in maintaining the lab, but that was never to be.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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