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despoticly

despoticly is the archaic form of despotically.

Meaning of despotically

Adverb

despotically (comparative more despotically, superlative most despotically)

  1. 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

Forms of despoticly

comparativemore despoticly
superlativemost despoticly

Questions about despoticly

What is despoticly the archaic form of?
Despoticly is the archaic form of despotically.

Words near despoticly in the dictionary

  1. despotic
  2. despotical
  3. despotically
  4. despoticalness
  5. despotick
  6. despoticly
  7. despotism
  8. despotisms
  9. despotist
  10. despotists
  11. despotize

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