merciless rule
Brutal absolute authority
Merciless rule is governance without compassion or restraint—authority exercised harshly, with no softening of punishment or policy.
The phrase emphasizes cruelty or indifference to suffering: The province endured decades of merciless rule under the military junta.
It implies subjects have no recourse to appeal or clemency.
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- reign of terrorPeriod of violent oppression
- despotRuler with absolute power
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- iron fistBrutal autocratic rule
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merciless ruleconstitutional monarchy
Royalty limited by charter
servant leadership · liberal democracy · republican government · consent of the governed
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