Absolutism

6. To exercise control or influence over someone or something in a tyrannical or oppressive manner.
7. A ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or unjustly.
9. Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
11. A ruler with total power over a country, typically obtained and maintained by force.
14. Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.

1. A form of government in which a single individual rules as head of state for life, often as a hereditary position.
2. Pertaining to an empire or its ruler.
3. A ruler who has absolute power and authority over a state or territory.
4. A ruler with absolute power, often exercising it in a cruel or oppressive manner.
5. A title of the emperor of Russia before 1917; also used to refer to a powerful leader with autocratic tendencies.
7. Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
8. A form of government in which power is vested in a small group of individuals, often wealthy elites.
10. A supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
12. The period during which a monarch rules.
13. A person appointed to govern a kingdom in the absence, incapacity, or minority of the sovereign.