authoritarian vs despot

authoritarian

noun
  • One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority. 

  • One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority. 

adj
  • Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical. 

  • Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties. 

  • Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority. 

despot

noun
  • A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. 

  • A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) 

How often have the words authoritarian and despot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )