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absolutism
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WordNet
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n. dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: tyranny , despotism ] a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship , authoritarianism , Caesarism ...
Wikipedia
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The term absolutism may refer to: Absolute monarchy , a form of government where the monarch has the power to rule their land freely, with no laws or legally organized direct opposition in force. This term is especially applied to a period in European history, ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context theology English) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner. (First attested in the mid 18 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=9) 2 (context political science English) The principles or practice ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absolutism \Ab"so*lu`tism\, n. The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. --Palfrey. (Theol.) Doctrine ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But we do all recognise that without that balance, in certain instances, absolutism can easily spill over into extremism. ▪ By paving the way for a national free market, absolutism fostered capitalism. ▪ Few today would hold ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753 in theology; 1830 in politics, in which sense it was first used by British reformer and parliamentarian Maj. Gen. Thomas Perronet Thompson (1783-1869). See absolute and \n -ism .
Usage examples of absolutism.
Bismarck and Cavour seized the opportunity of making extremely useful for Germany and Italy the irrelevant and vacillating idealism and the timid absolutism of the third Napoleon.
Among other results was the ease with which German Protestantism became the instrument of royal and princely absolutism from the sixteenth century until the kings and princes were overthrown in 1918.
Ego and Eco were still staring at each other across an unbridgeable gulf, and the two absolutisms were altogether incompatible.
So he got rid of those ministers identified with the muscular absolutism of his grandfather and replaced them with reformers who would somehow conjure up changes that might be both politically liberal and fiscally copious.
Their arid soil gave little scope to the territorial magnate, who was excluded from politics by the growing absolutism of the dynasty, and the government found it well to employ at a distance forces that might be turbulent at home.
Ego and Eco were still staring at each other across an unbridgeable gulf, and the two absolutisms were altogether incompatible.
If immediately, then God governs in them as he does in the church, and no man is free to think or act contrary to popular opinion, or in any case to question the wisdom or justice of any of the acts of the state, which is arriving at state absolutism by another process.
This new theory transfers to society the sovereignty which that asserted for the individual, and asserts social despotism, or the absolutism of the state.
Christian tradition, which once supported political absolutism, was reinterpreted to accept the democratic ideal.
The French communities that grew in the midst of those naked timocrats, whose savagery they soothed by beads and crucifixes and weapons, were the plantings of absolutism paternalistic to the last degree.
I should have assumed towards a court which stands aloof from all the courts in the world for its unbounded absolutism.
The sound of these chimes brought back to Nekhludoff's mind what he had read in the notes of the Decembrists [the Decembrists were a group who attempted, but failed, to put an end to absolutism in Russia at the time of the accession of Nicholas the First] about the way this sweet music repeated every hour re-echoes in the hearts of those imprisoned for life.
Captain Alston had impressed him as the type who enforced regulations with an old-fashioned absolutism.