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Definition of Despotisms
1. despotism [n] - See also: despotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despotisms
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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