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Definition of Despots
1. despot [n] - See also: despot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despots
Literary usage of Despots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"Character of the despots, and causes of their fall. 8 4. Contest between oligarchy
and democracy on the removal of the despots. § 5. despots of Sicyon. ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"It was during the age of the despots that the conditions of the ... During this
age of the despots, Italy presents the spectacle of a nation devoid of ..."
3. Problems in Greek History by John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"Crete's treatment of the despots. Their perpetual recurrence in the Greek world.
... But, when he comes to treat of the despots, or tyrants, who overthrew ..."
4. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1916)
"THE ENLIGHTENED despots The spirit of progress and reform had slowly made itself
... These were the benevolent despots. They were despots. absolute rulers, ..."
5. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1904)
"CHAPTER XXII THE ITALIAN CITIES AND THE RENAISSANCE I. THE ITALIAN despots No
one better understood the Italian despot and the peculiarities of his position ..."
6. The Development of Modern Europe: An Introduction to the Study of Current by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1907)
"The "en- It happened in the eighteenth century that there were sev- despots" eral
remarkably intelligent monarchs, — Frederick II of Prussia, Catharine the ..."
7. A History of Greece, from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith, George Washington Greene (1890)
"Contest between oligarchy and democracy on the removal of the despots. § 5. ...
despots of Corinth. History of Cypselus and Periander. § 7. ..."
8. Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"THE fourteenth and fifteenth centuries may be called the Age of the despots in
Italian history, as the twelfth and thirteenth are the Age of the Free Burghs ..."
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