absolutism
the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.
Origin of absolutism
1Other words for absolutism
Other words from absolutism
- ab·so·lut·ist, noun, adjective
- ab·so·lu·tis·tic, adjective
- ab·so·lu·tis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- non·ab·so·lut·ist, noun
- non·ab·so·lu·tis·tic, adjective
- non·ab·so·lu·tis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- pro·ab·so·lut·ism, noun
- pro·ab·so·lut·ist, adjective, noun
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How to use absolutism in a sentence
The Russian Revolution summed everything up in an instant: in place of dynastic rule, absolutism of a different kind.
The play-to-the-base impulse is girded by a righteous certainty that can lead to at best impracticality and at worst absolutism.
What are some great works of literature that you admire for their ability to combat dictatorship and absolutism?
We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
This is self-government committing economic suicide, putting ideological absolutism ahead of solving problems.
The patriotism of the Japanese is blind and unswerving loyalty to what is practically an absolutism.
Revolution and Other Essays | Jack LondonThe King wished to save them, for he knew that they were the best supporters of the throne of absolutism.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI | John LordHaving felt God, God became for him a necessity: more so even, an essential—an absolutism which banished all else from his mind.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value | Arthur Glyn LeonardWhen the royalist gentry went down before Cromwell's Ironsides, absolutism received its death-wound.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeThe history of English absolutism distinctly bears out these anticipations.
The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean Martin
British Dictionary definitions for absolutism
/ (ˈæbsəluːˌtɪzəm) /
the principle or practice of a political system in which unrestricted power is vested in a monarch, dictator, etc; despotism
philosophy
any theory which holds that truth or moral or aesthetic value is absolute and universal and not relative to individual or social differences: Compare relativism
the doctrine that reality is unitary and unchanging and that change and diversity are mere illusion: See also monism (def. 2), pluralism (def. 5b)
Christianity an uncompromising form of the doctrine of predestination
Derived forms of absolutism
- absolutist, noun, adjective
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