| 单词 | oriental despotism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOriental despotism Oriental despotism n. a particularly oppressive form of despotic government, thought historically to be characteristic of Asian politics, esp. those of the Ottoman and Chinese Empires; (as a count noun) any regime operating through this form of government. ΚΠ 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. vi. 148 Rome was..humbled beneath the effeminate luxury of oriental despotism. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer v. 56 A good, generous prayer it was,..: it pleaded for..the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms. 1963 Slavic Rev. 22 645 Professor Wittfogel..recognizes the marginal or ‘peripheral’ status of Russia as an Oriental despotism. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) xii. 146 Islamic influence..added some of the gorgeous paraphernalia of oriental despotism, notably the state umbrella. < as lemmas |
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