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US
/ˈæbsəˌɫuˌtɪzəm/
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[ UK /ˈæbsəlˌuːtɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ˈæbsəlˌuːtɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- the doctrine of an absolute being
How To Use absolutism In A Sentence
- The social transition has gone wrong: it is majoritarian absolutism.
- The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
- When you get to the core of the argument, the question of relativism vs. absolutism is what the issue is about. Waldo Jaquith - Bob Gibson opposes Amendment #1.
- The virtues of tomorrow, unlike the virtues of yore, will be inspiring shape-shifters whose purpose, in addition to saving us, will be to baffle the certainties and absolutisms of ideologues everywhere.
- The result is that the moral absolutism claimed by legal categorizations are avoided and the validity of both sides is maintained.
- Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin. Why They All Came to Versailles
- As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
- The rejection of absolutism implicit in our constitutional structure may sometimes make our politics seem unprincipled.
- Thus it is that the growth of technical means tending to absolutism forbids the appearance of values and condemns to sterility our search for the ethical and the spiritual.
- The principal view of mathematics has changed from motionlessness and absolutism to action and dialectics with the development of mathematics.
