- Absolute rule - Despotism - Tyranny - Independent or self-derived power; absolute or
controlling authority; supremacy. - Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of
governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. - Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a
state); autonomy. - The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive
powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital
principle.
- Absolute rule - Tyranny - The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute
control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. - A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic
monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
- Absolute rule - Predominance - superiority over others - Upper hand - The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of
power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a
king or a parliament.