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Autocrator vs Despot - What's the difference?

autocrator | despot |

As nouns the difference between autocrator and despot

is that autocrator is while despot is despot.

autocrator

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • (Webster 1913)

    despot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  • (label) A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

    • Derived terms

    * despotate * despotism

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