Definition of Despotisms

1. Noun. (plural of despotism) ¹

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Definition of Despotisms

1. despotism [n] - See also: despotism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Despotisms

desport
desported
desporting
desports
despot
despotat
despotate
despotates
despotats
despotic
despotical
despotically
despoticalness
despotick
despotism
despotisms (current term)
despotist
despotists
despotize
despotized
despotizes
despotizing
despots
despread
despreaded
despreading
despreads
despujolsite
despumate
despumated

Literary usage of Despotisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Art and Artists. by Rosswell William Haskins (1851)
"Houseless and a wanderer, under the despotisms of Europe, having no affinities with the people, but supplicating its daily bread, at political courts, ..."

2. Patchwork by Basil Hall (1841)
"Various despotisms.—Tyranny of Guides.—The Cicerone.—Seeing by Proxy. ... I have seen the despotisms of the East, but it is a very different thing merely to ..."

3. A Short History of Italy: (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1905)
"... XX THE despotisms (1250-1360) PERHAPS the quality which strikes us most in this dawn of our Modern World is its suddenness; Nic- colo Pisano gets up, ..."

4. The Evolution of Governments and Laws: Exhibiting the Governmental by Stephen Haley Allen (1922)
"... CHAPTER II TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SIMPLE despotisms Passing from our imperfect view of the most low and repulsive specimens of human beings to those ..."

5. Enquiries Historical and Moral: Respecting the Character of Nations, and the by Hugh Murray (1808)
"L SMALL despotisms. WRITERS on this subject have not failed to observe that man, even at this early period, is sometimes found subjected to a degree of ..."

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