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"ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 136:",
"text": "The iron hand of despotism has quenched the last spark of liberty; hunted down like a wild beast, I am watching an opportunity to fly my degraded and enslaved country.",
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"ref": "1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 4:50 from the start, in Richard Nixon on \"Inside Washington\", Richard Nixon Foundation, retrieved 2020-05-25:",
"text": "But now events have proved that I was right because Khrushchev's grandchildren do live in freedom and the great question of our time: can they continue to live in freedom, or will they revert to the old, or a new despotism?",
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"text": "But now events have proved that I was right because Khrushchev's grandchildren do live in freedom and the great question of our time: can they continue to live in freedom, or will they revert to the old, or a new despotism?",
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"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "despotizem"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "despotismo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "despoti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "despotism"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "istibdod",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "истибдод"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "zulm",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "зулм"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "rá-bòp chái am-nâat dèt kàat",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "ระบบใช้อำนาจเด็ดขาด"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "despotizm"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "istibdat"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "despotýzm",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "деспоти́зм"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "istibdād",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "اِسْتِبْدَاد"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "despotiya"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "istibdod"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "zulm"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "government by a singular authority",
"word": "däspot"
}
],
"word": "despotism"
}
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