absolute monarch
Americannoun
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Like a monarch, she is identified with the state, and like an absolute monarch, she identifies the state with herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
And the sultan of Brunei, an absolute monarch who imposes a hard-line interpretation of Islam, will also be among the guests.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
As an absolute monarch, Francis wields supreme legislative, executive and judicial power in Vatican City.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
If Westeros is going to have an absolute monarch, I think it could use one who’s at least paying attention to what’s going on around him.
From Slate ● May 20, 2019
Since the Inca bureaucracy was so strongly identified with its godlike absolute monarch, it disintegrated after Atahuallpa’s death.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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