tyrannophilia
English
Etymology
tyranno- + -philia
Noun
tyrannophilia (uncountable)
- A preference for autocratic forms of leadership.
- 1977, Robert John Clements, Joseph Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio Chaucer to Cervantes, page 94:
- Like many another novellist, Giraldi expresses admiration for kings and even spends most of his ninth deca indulging in a kind of tyrannophilia, making heroes of Ercole d'Este, Alfonso d'Este, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Francois I. Maria de Pacheco.
- 2002, Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, →ISBN, page 10:
- Rather than attempt to domesticate Nietzsche's tyrannophilia, Staten instead investigates the possibility of a "communication of energy" within the economy of Nietzsche's texts between his tyrrannophilia on the one hand and the most profound and sublime elements of his teaching on the other.
- 2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions:
- Although tyrannophilia (D. Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.
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