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Used to signify one's exercise of power in a dictatiorial, repressive and/or charismatic manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from French l'état, c'est moi (“I am the state”), which apocryphally attributed to Louis XIV per an anecdote representing the tyranny of France before the French Revolution.
