Difference between Despot and Autocrat

DESPOT vs AUTOCRAT: NOUN

A ruler with absolute power.
A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
A Byzantine emperor or prince.
An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.
An absolute ruler; one who governs according to his own will, under a recognized right or custom, but uncontrolled by constitutional restrictions or the wishes of his subjects; a sovereign who is himself theoretically the source of all law.
A tyrant; an oppressor; one who or a body which exercises lawful power tyrannically or oppressively, as either sovereign or master.
An honorary title of the Byzantine emperors, afterward of members of their families, and then conferred as a title of office on vassal rulers and governors: as, the despots of Epirus.
Synonyms Autocrat, dictator.
A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
A cruel and oppressive dictator
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)
A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.

A cruel and oppressive dictator
A ruler having unlimited power; a despot.
A person with unlimited power or authority.
An absolute prince or sovereign; a ruler or monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions: as, “the autocrat of all the Russias,” a title assumed by the emperor of Russia.
One who is invested with or assumes unlimited authority in any relation: as, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” (title of a book)
An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction.
One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.
An absolute ruler with infinite power
A title borne by some such Monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia

Usurper, Strongman, Oppressor, Warlord, Megalomaniac, Dictatorship, Despotism, Potentate, Ruler, Autocracy, Dictator, Tsar, Satrap, Autocrat, Tyrant

Kleptocracy, Megalomaniac, Despotism, Potentate, Authoritarianism, Oligarchy, Absolute monarchy, Strongman, Dictatorship, Ruler, Autocracy, Tsar, Dictator, Tyrant, Despot

Usurper, Strongman, Oppressor, Warlord, Megalomaniac, Dictatorship, Despotism, Potentate, Ruler, Autocracy, Dictator, Tsar, Satrap, Autocrat, Tyrant

Kleptocracy, Megalomaniac, Despotism, Potentate, Authoritarianism, Oligarchy, Absolute monarchy, Strongman, Dictatorship, Ruler, Autocracy, Tsar, Dictator, Tyrant, Despot

The besieged autocrat is stuck between Russia and a hard place.
Libya intervention removed an autocrat from power in five months.
He was just one more autocrat on the world stage.
Disappointedly pyrotechnic autocrat may feed without the hundredfold honest circumstances.
The main chorus suggests absolute unity of an autocrat.
Saddam Hussein, who, like Assad, was a secular autocrat.
Xi Jinping is an autocrat, meaning rule by one.
Not surprising that a clueless autocrat would demand it.
Autocrat Caroline merch Elwyn of the Far Hills.
Aeoelwig Aelfwigsson was the autocrat, and deputy seneschal.