Preemptory vs Despotic - What's the difference?
preemptory | despotic |
Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
As adjectives the difference between preemptory and despotic
is that preemptory is pertaining to preemption while despotic is of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.preemptory
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Alternative forms
* pre-emptory * preemptoryQuotations
*1863 , Donald Grant Mitchell, My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book , p105 *:But with this, and all other aids — among which I may name the loose preëmptory reflections and suggestions of certain adjoining farmers — I was by no means proud of the appearance of the little herd of twelve or fourteen cows with which operations were to commence. *1926 , S.S. McClure Co., McClure’s Magazine , p380 *:We pulls into Coal Creek late that night, and then he suddenly gets all-fired preëmptory . *2003 , Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Quarterly Magazine 1907 , p40 *:The King sent preëmptory instructions to his Ambassador at Rome, Cardinal D’Estrees, to enter the lists against Molinos and to do everything in his power to ruin him.References
* - seepage 1128.
Anagrams
*despotic
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Alternative forms
* despotickAdjective
(en adjective)- This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
- The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.
