tyrannophilia

English

Etymology

From tyranno- +‎ -philia.

Noun

tyrannophilia (uncountable)

1. 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.