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/ˈæbsəˌɫutnəs/
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the quality of being absolute
the absoluteness of the pope's decree could not be challenged -
the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections
How To Use absoluteness In A Sentence
- The Puritan paradox, to name it such, was that a rigorous defense of the absoluteness of Scripture as an objective, prescriptive code, could not be made without a critical analysis of the contents of Scripture itself.
- It is the "absoluteness" of the proponents 'convictions and the ruthless persecution of anyone who doesn't share their views that prevents not only a real conversation but new approaches or solutions to some of the problems facing our country. Old Enough to Vote, Enlist and Marry, but to Drink?
- Borrow the network, borrow the contaminative and mass sense organs, borrow to rape the mass eyeball but become famous, to us the inequity of absoluteness.
- Gods, a greater and a lesser, thus denying the absoluteness, the infinity, the illimitability, by any category of quantity, of that One Roman and the Teuton
- L results; that is to say, the so-called absoluteness arguments are missing. Kurt Gödel
- As a writer, I drew three lessons from him: the absoluteness of his concentration, the contrariness of his thinking, and the depth of his respect for good writing.
- But this is a familiar point, and does not cancel the absoluteness of one's own death. The Times Literary Supplement
- If some rules are aboslute, do they vanish when their absoluteness is challenged? Wilde: Notes, outline
- Secondly, they have both a kind of absoluteness which raises them above earthly things. Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell
- I suppose there's an absoluteness about marriage. Times, Sunday Times