#absolute monarch
- Absolutism — 1. A political regime characterized by the total and unrestricted concentration of power in the hands of a single sovereign (monarch); autocracy. 2. In moral philosophy and ethics (ethical absolutism), a doctrine or stance holding that moral standards, values, and norms are objective, universal, eternal, and immutable, being applicable to all people across all cultures and historical eras, in direct opposition to relativism.
- Autocrat — An early archaic form of the noun 'autocrat', used in Romanian medieval chronicles and royal chancellery documents under Byzantine influence. It designates an absolute monarch, an emperor, or a ruler with full power, unlimited by any external law or institution, governing by divine right.
- Female autocrat — Feminine form of autocrat; a woman who exercises an absolute, totalitarian, or dictatorial leadership in a state, organization, or community, concentrating all authority in her own hands. As an adjective, it describes an authoritarian, coercive leadership structure, attitude, or governmental measure that restricts individual freedoms.
- Autocratic (archaic) — An archaic, traditional, or literary form for the adjective autocratic; specific to an autocrat or the absolutist way of ruling from past eras. It is primarily used in historical texts, old documents, or literary analyses to describe the pomp, abuses, or decrees of an absolute monarch or imperial tyrant.
- Autokrator — An official title borne by certain absolute monarchs, especially Byzantine emperors and Russian tsars, as the equivalent of the Latin term 'imperator', designating a sovereign who rules by their own absolute and unlimited authority. In a broader sense, the term refers to an autocratic ruler self-invested with full powers in the state.