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absolutism [ˈæbsəluːt̬ɪzəm, Brit -tɪz-] N no pl

absolutism

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One of the last representatives of absolutism, he lived during a turbulent period; his reign never saw a lasting peace. en.wikipedia.org

Liberals opposed traditional conservatism and sought to replace absolutism in government with representative democracy and the rule of law. en.wikipedia.org

Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry. en.wikipedia.org

He presented two philosophical attitudes towards data modeling, which he called semantic relativism and semantic absolutism. en.wikipedia.org

During this time, he wrote exclusively on political matters, as an advocate of secular absolutism against papal authority, for which he had previously been excommunicated. en.wikipedia.org

The pursuit of absolutism and theoretical arguments lacking practicality, for example, is, in his view, one of the main defects of modern philosophy. en.wikipedia.org

He was a businesslike, vigilant patriarch who managed to enjoy one last high point of princely absolutism. en.wikipedia.org

He personifies in extreme form the spirit of autocracy in art, the principle of absolutism so typical of his race and country. en.wikipedia.org

It gradually grew stronger during the 1840s, and at the crisis and fall of absolutism 1848 it was the driving force. en.wikipedia.org

An opportunist, he had no problems with switching allegiances from enlightened absolutism to serving the new anti-enlightenment emperor. en.wikipedia.org

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