Absolutism

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:35:50

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.

2. Theol.

Doctrine of absolute decrees.

Ash.

the morality of breaking immoral laws	absolute monarchy	This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private	absolute
absolute law	Lincoln-Douglas Debates	peritrope	Robert Molesworth
communism	absolute power corrupts absolutely	Thomas Hobbes	Jacobin
Apocalypse	Seventeenth Century	The Body	Lonely Hipsters on a Higher Plane of Existence
moral relativism	Restoration of authoritarianism in Russia	The presence of Chinese and Japanese cultures in American popular culture	Flowers for Algernon
cultural relativism	postmodernism	rococo	despotism

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