despotic monarchy

American  

noun

1. absolute monarchy.

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Other Word Forms

Derived 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

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 Martineau, Harriet

Looking merely at the surface of things, we should call Denmark a despotic monarchy, and the Roman world, in the first century after Christ, an aristocratical republic.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

An ardent republican and revolutionary, he was tied by the strongest bonds to the most despotic monarchy in Europe.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan