despotic monarchy

American  

noun

1. absolute monarchy.

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Other Word Forms

• despotic monarch
  noun

Example Sentences

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 Parmele, Mary Platt

He combats the proposition, "if a good despot could be insured, despotic monarchy would be the best form of government."

From Studies in Civics by McCleary, J. T. (James Thompson)

But this master of statecraft, this creator of despotic monarchy, had one unsatisfied ambition.

From A Short History of France by Parmele, Mary Platt

The political system appears to have been a despotic monarchy, and the realm of the monarch to have extended to far wider limits than those of the “city-states” of historical Greece.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various