absolutism
ab suh looh ti zuhm
- n dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- n a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- n the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- n the doctrine of an absolute being
- In fact, for abortion opponents whose views fall anywhere short of fanatical absolutism, the answer ought to be easy as well: full speed ahead.
- Nor has Guevara's uncompromising, unrealistic style of struggle, or his ethical absolutism, prevailed.
- Thereafter it became an instrument for bolstering up absolutism and in influence and practical good it remained in reality, to use the words of Metternich, "a sonorous nothing.