What is "despotisms"

Usage examples of "despotisms".

But they would find enough classicism at Ansbach, he promised them, and he entered with sympathetic intelligence into their wish to see this former capital when March told him they were going to stop there, in hopes of something typical of the old disjointed Germany of the petty principalities, the little paternal despotisms now extinct.

There were, if I may so express it, a thousand despotisms to be reformed in France, which had grown up under the hereditary despotism of the monarchy, and became so rooted as to be in a great measure independent of it.

Is it for such results as this that our great country welcomes to its bosom the alien who flies from the despotisms of Europe?

And that such cases should still be possible in Russia and in Turkey places those two old despotisms outside the pale of the civilised world.

For ages and ages it has mutely laboured in the interest of despotisms and aristocracies and chattel slaveries, and military slaveries, and religious slaveries, and has kept them alive.