THESAURUS
divine right
absolute power, absolutism, appurtenance, authority, birthright, claim, competence, competency, conjugal right, constituted authority, delegated authority, demand, droit, due, faculty, inalienable right, indirect authority, inherent authority, interest, jus divinum, lawful authority, legal authority, legitimacy, natural right, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, regality, right, rightful authority, royal prerogative, the say, the say-so, title, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority
ROGET THESAURUS
divine right
Authority
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authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government,
divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.