Absolutism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSOLUTISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the doctrine of government by a single absolute ruler
• the holding of absolute principles in political, philosophical, or theological matters.
• government by a single ruler
• The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
• Doctrine of absolute decrees.
• dominance through threat of punishment and violence
• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
• the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
• the doctrine of an absolute being
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers; government by an absolute ruler or authority; despotism

Words related to ABSOLUTISM

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Words that contain ABSOLUTISM

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How to use ABSOLUTISM in a sentence

• A decisive struggle is surely impending between freedom and absolutism, between the bigoted adherents of the old faiths and the nations that have cut loose from them.
• Besides, he loved absolutism, both because he was by nature a tyrant, and because he was a member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
• He saw in absolutism the only hope of stability, the only reign of law.
• It was now seen that he was determined to rule in utter defiance of the charter he had sworn to defend, and on the principles of undisguised absolutism.
• But now feudalism, very generally established, and papal absolutism, rapidly culminating, are to meet in angry collision.
• The obstinacy of an hereditary absolutism, which the world has outgrown, still lingers in our schools of learning.
• Absolutism was dying hard, clinging to its powers with remarkable tenacity.
• They felt that in warring against Prussian militarist-imperialism they were undermining Russian Absolutism.
• Not only was the Romanov dynasty ended, but equally so was monarchical Absolutism itself.
• He embodied the spirit of the Inquisition, and upheld the principles of ecclesiastical reform upon the narrow basis of Papal absolutism.
• It was in fact the marriage contract of ecclesiastical and secular absolutism, by which the estates of Catholic Christendom were put in trust and settlement for posterity.
• It was in vain that Sarpi told his foreign correspondents that the war of liberty in Europe must be carried into the stronghold of absolutism.
• That France, republican France, has allied herself with Russian absolutism for the purpose of murder and destruction, is an almost inconceivable fact.
• In this fashion was transferred to America the crushing political and ecclesiastical absolutism of the mother country.
• Anselm, to become archbishop, from the hour of his consecration to the See of Canterbury, in 1162, Becket was as firm as Anselm had been in resisting the absolutism of the King.
• Thus supported by the despotic states, and the sovereign pontiff, he bid defiance to the constitutional states of Europe, and even increased the cruelties of his stern absolutism.
• Both watched each other on the Papal estates until 1838, when, on their withdrawal, absolutism was again restored.
• At the end he placed the responsibility for the domination of absolutism upon the Continent of Europe to the intervention of Russia and to her recognized supremacy in war.
• In the lifetime of Kossuth, absolutism, both in church and state, has lost much of power on the Continent of Europe, while in America it has no abiding place.
• He was a thinker whose theories were strangely compounded of absolutism and democracy.
• Hence Louis was a monarch whose absolutism rested on a popular basis.
• Therefore, also, have men said that Richelieu built up absolutism.
• It was they who gave relief to French Canada from the absolutism of old France, and started her in a career of self-government and political liberty.
• In a small state, absolutism is held under the checks of neighbourhood and familiarity.
• My soul has been in revolt against the doctrine of Congressional Absolutism.
• This will be impossible if I am to believe that they organized a government to exercise from their place that absolutism which they rejected for themselves.
• It was a government combining the theory of absolutism with the practice of public responsibility.
• The world of German absolutism, like the Stoic world, was not fallen.
• In France its light played round institutions which were too deeply rooted in absolutism and privilege to be capable of substantial modification.
• They only contend for the despotism, the absolutism, the omnipotence of the law.
• Then psychology aspired to be a philosophy of real existence, and attacked both absolutism and materialism.

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