despotic monarchy

American  

noun

1. absolute monarchy.

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• despotic monarch
  noun

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despotic monarchy

Having succeeded in cutting the colonies loose from what they regarded as a despotic monarchy, the founding fathers were extremely wary of the tyrannical potential in the office of Chief Executive.

From Time Magazine Archive

So completely did this remodel the whole administration, that the most despotic monarchy in Europe was transformed into the one most severely limited.

From A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele

If it is an absolute, despotic monarchy, it is also a very democratic country, with its self-made men, its powerful public opinion, and a “states’ rights” question of its own.

From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin

There had been, however, another toast, to which they had been wont to respond with more enthusiasm than was ever won by despotic monarchy from its slaves.

From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

The disguised transformation of the Roman commonwealth into a despotic monarchy, under the long administration of Augustus, is perhaps the nearest parallel.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay