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Caesarism

noun
1.
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).  Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny.






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"Caesarism" Quotes from Famous Books



... declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism: the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote. Caesarism was conservative. It was strong. It recognized the legitimate needs of democracy which requires orders, titles, and distinctions. They would ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... Continental writer enjoyed of the working of popular institutions in England and America, matured by the experience of a lifetime; spoke while the most critical experiments in democratic Constitutionalism and democratic Caesarism were being worked ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various

... the Chancellor had again occasion to defend his imperial master against a charge of being "anti-social," brought by the Socialist von Vollmar, who coupled the charge with insinuations of absolutism and Caesarism. Prince ...
— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw



Words linked to "Caesarism" :   autocracy, police state, absolutism, autarchy, monocracy



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