- 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.
- Despotism
- Mr Hardin ran New York with oppressive force
- Oppressive use of power
- The government or authority of a tyrant; a country
governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of
power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not
authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of
government.
- Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a
schoolmaster.
- Severity; rigor; inclemency.