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absolute monarch

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[ab-suh-loot mahn-erk, mahn-ahrk] / ˈæb səˌlut ˈmɑn ərk, ˈmɑn ɑrk /

noun

  1. the ruler in an absolute monarchy; a monarch with no constitutional limits on power.


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Like a monarch, she is identified with the state, and like an absolute monarch, she identifies the state with herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

And the sultan of Brunei, an absolute monarch who imposes a hard-line interpretation of Islam, will also be among the guests.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

However, Louis XVIII, the restored French king, could not rule as an absolute monarch and had to recognize his subjects’ new constitutional rights to participate in government and regulate the king’s power.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Francis, who as absolute monarch wields supreme legislative, executive and judicial power in Vatican City, has in many ways already convicted Becciu.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2021

Since the Inca bureaucracy was so strongly identified with its godlike absolute monarch, it disintegrated after Atahuallpa’s death.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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