Exact Match:
- absolutism
- the doctrine of an absolute being
- the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Synonyms:
- Caesarism,
- Stalinism,
- absolute monarchy,
- absolute power,
- autarchy,
- authoritarianism,
- authority,
- autocracy,
- benevolent despotism,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- captivity,
- competence,
- competency,
- constituted authority,
- control,
- czarism,
- debt slavery,
- delegated authority,
- deprivation of freedom,
- despotism,
- dictatorship,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- divine right,
- domination,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- faculty,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- indentureship,
- indirect authority,
- inherent authority,
- jus divinum,
- kaiserism,
- lawful authority,
- legal authority,
- legitimacy,
- monarchy,
- one-man rule,
- one-party rule,
- paternalism,
- peonage,
- power,
- prerogative,
- regality,
- restraint,
- right,
- rightful authority,
- royal prerogative,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- the say,
- the say-so,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- totalitarianism,
- tyranny,
- vassalage,
- vested authority,
- vicarious authority,
- villenage