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noun

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The correct spelling is despots. A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

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noun

  1. 1.A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
  2. 2.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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