Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæb.sə.luː.tɪz.m̩/, /ˈæb.sə.ljuː.tɪz.m̩/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪz.m̩/, /ˈæb.səˌljuˌtɪz.m̩/
Noun
absolutism (countable and uncountable, plural absolutisms)
- (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
- Hyponyms: absolute monarchy, benevolent absolutism, enlightened absolutism, enlightened despotism
1859, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume I, page 217:The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
2019, John Gascoigne, Science and the State, page 54:As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
- (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- Hyponym: Meiklejohnian absolutism
- (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
2003, Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language, →ISBN:It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
Translations
theology: doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees
- Dutch: predestinatieleer m
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political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism
the state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute or unconditional
positiveness
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- Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
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References
Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absolutism”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.