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despot
UK /ˈdɛs.pɒt/ US /ˈdɛs.pət/
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.
2
A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)
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