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shogunate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shogunate  \Sho*gun"ate\,  n. 
  The  office  or  dignity  of  a  Shogun.  [Written  also 
  {Siogoonate}.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shogunate 
  n  :  a  form  of  government  in  which  the  ruler  is  an  absolute 
  dictator  (not  restricted  by  a  constitution  or  laws  or 
  opposition  etc.)  [syn:  {dictatorship},  {absolutism},  {authoritarianism}, 
  {Caesarism},  {despotism},  {monocracy},  {one-man  rule},  {Stalinism}, 
  {totalitarianism},  {tyranny}] 




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