absolutism

CEFRC2

/ˈæb.sə.luː.tɪz.m̩/

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The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
Positiveness; the state of being absolute.

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The king's absolutism was unpopular.
The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.

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The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
1859, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume I, page 217
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.
2019, John Gascoigne, Science and the State, page 54
It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
2003, Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language, →ISBN

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First attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute + -ism, based after French absolutisme.