caudillon.
/kɔːˈdiːljəʊ/, /kɔːˈdɪləʊ/, /kaʊˈdiːjəʊ/, U.S. /kaʊˈdiˌjoʊ/ The head or chief of state of a Spanish-speaking country; spec. the title (El Caudillo) assumed by General Francisco Franco in 1938 as head of the Spanish state, in imitation of Duce n. and Führer n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > in a republic > in Spanish-speaking state
caudillo1852
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > of authoritarian state
leader1918
Duce1923
Reichsführer1933
Führer1934
caudillo1939
vozhd1940
1852 F. White Diary 182 in Publ. Archives Canada The era of the caudillos has passed away [in Argentina].
1918 W. H. Hudson Far Away & Long Ago viii. 130 The greatest and most interesting of all the South American Caudillos or leaders.
1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 264 The Caudillo took unto himself yet another imposing title, Captain-General of Spain.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 163/1 The Franco régime has already survived longer than most European dictatorships... The Caudillo seems as firmly in the saddle as ever.
1969 J. Mander Static Society i. 69 It was this crisis of legitimacy that gave rise to the Latin American caudillo.
Derivatives
caudiˈllismo n. a political system organized under the rule of a caudillo.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Spanish politics > [noun] > principles or policies
tragalism1837
intransigentism1882
Catalanism1930
caudillismo1955
1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 323 It was apparent that caudillismo was generally accepted as the normal method of government.
1969 J. Mander Static Society viii. 274 Caudillismo of the old type was no longer tolerable.
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