English-French translations for despotism

• despotisme
  Mais elle peut devenir un despotisme éclairé. However, it can become an enlightened despotism.
  Ce n'est pas de la démocratie, c'est du despotisme. This is not democracy, this is despotism.
  De façon générale, l'Union européenne ne doit pas recourir au despotisme. The European Union should not, as a general rule, employ despotism.

Definition of despotism

• government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way

Related words

• despotic
• despotically
• despoticalness
• adespotic