sultanismn.
/ˈsʌltənɪz(ə)m/ Rule like that of a sultan; absolute government; despotism, tyranny.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > tyranny, despotism, or autocracy
tyrannyc1374
tyrandisea1387
tyrannity1535
absoluteness1574
tyrannism1591
Nimrodizing1605
will government1644
autocracy1659
autarchy1665
Neronism1670
despotism1728
sultanism1821
absolutism1824
autocratism1833
despotocracya1860
tyrannis1878
tyrantship1885
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 354 Our admiration of chivalry and sultanism.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxiii. 161 That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested.
1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. (1870) 88 Asiatic sultanism was set up, and all public functions fell into the hands of military officials.
1884 J. R. Seeley Short Hist. Napoleon I (1886) iii. §4. 113 The rising sultanism [of Napoleon in 1804].
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