| 单词 | despotism |
| 释义 | despotism (once / 1077 pages) n Despotism is a way of ruling in which the leader has total, unchecked power. Joseph Stalin purged the Soviet Union of all his opponents in order to rule the country through despotism. He didn’t have many friends. Despotism can also describe tyranny, the wielding of power through cruelty and terror. It's often used in reference to a country that's ruled by a dictator, but despotism can describe any situation characterized by oppression and threats. When your sister threatens to send all of your friends embarrassing baby photos of you if you don’t let her control the TV remote, that’s despotism. WORD FAMILYdespotism: despotisms+/despot: despotic, despotical, despotism, despots/despotic: despotically, despoticly USAGE EXAMPLES“Victims of despotism are entitled to fairness and justice, and this is the message we are conveying to the whole world.” New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) It’s an idea that “advocates of democracy, and other enemies of despotism, will want to resist,” he wrote, and he counted himself among the resisters. The New Yorker(Oct 31, 2016) It was also a way for Clinton to avoid appearing soft on Middle Eastern despotism. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) 1n dominance through threat of punishment and violence Syn|Hyper absolutism, tyranny ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance the state that exists when one person or group has power over another 2n a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) Syn|Hypo|Hyper Caesarism, Stalinism, absolutism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny police state a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) autarchy, autocracy a political system governed by a single individual |
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