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What (who) is ABSOLUTISM - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Absolutist; Absolutism (disambiguation); Absolute standard; Absolutivism
absolutism
1.
Absolutism is a political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country.
...royal absolutism.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can refer to someone's beliefs as absolutism if they think that their beliefs are true, right, or relevant in all situations, especially if you think they are wrong to behave in this way.
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
• absolutist
This absolutist belief is replaced by an appreciation that rules can vary.
ADJ
absolutism
n.
Absoluteness, arbitrariness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy, personal government, Caesarism, the "man on horseback."
Absolutism
·noun Doctrine of absolute decrees.
II. Absolutism ·noun The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
Examples of use of ABSOLUTISM
1. The housing debate provokes such passion that it breeds absolutism.
2. You can’t win against this sort of circular absolutism.
3. However, democracy abhors absolutism of all kinds, and is based on compromise and accommodation.
4. Societies where dissent is confined to religious absolutism are incubators of anti–Western fanaticism.
5. They had an unyielding quality to them, the absolutism of faith.