despotically
despotically adverb: in a despotic manner.
Adverb
despotically (comparative more despotically, superlative most despotically)
- In a despotic manner.
- Thus Bracton: and Fortescue also, having first well distinguished between a monarchy absolutely and despotically regal, which is introduced by conquest and violence, and a political or civil monarchy, which arises from mutual consent; (of which last species he asserts the government of England to...1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
- I know men governing despotically great stretches of that country, whose every step in life has been such that a slip would have sent them to Dartmoor; but they trod along the high hard wall between right and wrong, the wall as sharp as a sword-edge, as softly and craftily and lightly as a cat.1910, w: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
Forms of despotically
| comparative | more despotically |
|---|---|
| superlative | most despotically |
Origin of despotically
From despotic + -ally.
Questions about despotically
- What does despotically mean?
- Despotically means in a despotic manner.
- What part of speech is despotically?
- Despotically is an adverb.
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