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despot â(plural despots) 1  A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. ( 2 historical) 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)  Chinese:
Posted on July 6, 2015 at 7:07 PM. Enlightened absolutism is sometimes called enlightened despotism. An absolute ruler or despot is someone who believes that the ruler should have all the power and no one should have any right to question or challenge what the ruler does. Generally, despot is a negative term. An enlightened despot was one who bought into at least some of the ideas of the Enlightenment.