1. (

• absolutism ,
• tyranny ,
• despotism

) dominance through threat of punishment and violence ;

2. (

• dictatorship ,
• absolutism ,
• authoritarianism ,
• Caesarism ,
• despotism ,
• monocracy ,
• one-man_rule ,
• shogunate ,
• Stalinism ,
• totalitarianism ,
• tyranny

) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) ;