Despot vs Oppress - What's the difference?
despot | oppress |
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)
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(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
* , II.x:
To keep down by force
To make sad or gloomy
As a noun despot
is despot.As a verb oppress is
(obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.despot
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oppress
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(es)- Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
- The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.