#despotism

• Arakcheyevism — An attitude or regime of governance characterized by brutal despotism, blind and formal military discipline, suffocating bureaucracy, and repressive police measures. The term derives from the name of the Russian tsarist general and minister Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769–1834), who enforced harsh military settlements in the Russian Empire, becoming a universal symbol of tyrannical administrative control devoid of flexibility or humanity.
• Arbitrary act — Archaic form and old regional variant (found sporadically in early legal translations or administrative manuscripts) for 'arbitrarietate' or 'arbitrary act'; a deed, decision, or state of affairs based on abuse, despotism, and the whim of an authority, lacking legal or logical foundation.
• Arbitrariness — Archaic form or transitional neologism (sporadically used in the 19th century under the direct influence of Romance languages) for the term 'arbitrarietate'; the manifestation or character of an action taken exclusively at the whim of an authority, without respecting written laws.