absolutism
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Absolutism Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Absolutism
(n.)
The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
(n.)
Doctrine of absolute decrees.
(n.)
The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
(n.)
Doctrine of absolute decrees.
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absolutism
Noun
1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence
(synonym) tyranny, despotism
(hypernym) dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
2. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
(synonym) dictatorship, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
(hypernym) autocracy, autarchy
(hyponym) police state
3. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
(synonym) totalitarianism, totalism
(hypernym) political orientation, ideology, political theory
4. the doctrine of an absolute being
(hypernym) doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
Noun
1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence
(synonym) tyranny, despotism
(hypernym) dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
2. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
(synonym) dictatorship, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
(hypernym) autocracy, autarchy
(hyponym) police state
3. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
(synonym) totalitarianism, totalism
(hypernym) political orientation, ideology, political theory
4. the doctrine of an absolute being
(hypernym) doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
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absolutism
absolutism
\ab"so*lu`tism\ (&?;), n.
1. 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.
2. (theol.) doctrine of absolute decrees.
absolutism
n
1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: tyranny, despotism]
2. 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, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
3. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government [syn: totalitarianism, totalism]
4. the doctrine of an absolute being
absolutism
\ab"so*lu`tism\ (&?;), n.
1. 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.
2. (theol.) doctrine of absolute decrees.
absolutism
n
1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: tyranny, despotism]
2. 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, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
3. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government [syn: totalitarianism, totalism]
4. the doctrine of an absolute being
Absolutism Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Absolutism Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Absolutism
Absolutism can mean:
- Absolute truth, the contention that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false
- Absolutism (European history), is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by any other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites
- Enlightened absolutism, a term used to describe the actions of absolute rulers who were influenced by the Enlightenment (eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe)
- Moral absolutism, the position that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are good or evil, regardless of the context of the act
- Autocracy (also known as 'political absolutism'), a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power
- 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
- a theory of space (see Philosophy of space and time#Absolutism vs. relationalism) holding that space exists absolutely, in contrast to relationalism, which holds that space exists only as relations between objects
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