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DESPOT Definition & Legal Meaning

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This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master andsupreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch ; but taken in bad part, as it is usuallyemployed, it signifies a tyrant In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign,as king is given In others. Enc. Lond.

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