despotism
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/ˈdespətɪzəm/
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/ˈdespətɪzəm/
A way of ruling where one person has all the power and uses it in a cruel and unfair way.
People in the country are suffering under the harsh despotism of their leader.
國家的人民正在忍受他們領導者的嚴酷專制。