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What does absolutism mean?

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Noun
  1. (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  2. (political science) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
  3. (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute. [First attested in the late 19th century.]
  4. Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
  5. (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
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When will we get effective political pushback against Hollywood's absolutism on copyright?
After all, what lies at the heart of European absolutism or Russian autocracy?
One problem with absolutism about honesty is that it drives the moralist into a kind of dishonesty of her own.
At the heart of Schiller's play, written two years before the French Revolution, lies a confrontation between absolutism and liberty.
Benedict's experience of Nazism led him to a fear not of absolutism but of totalitarianism, in which authority and truth are divorced.
As we have seen, Richardson follows the Whig propagandistic practice of conflating tyranny and absolutism.

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