absolutismnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈæb.sə.luː.tɪ.zəm/us/ˈæb.sə.luː.t̬ɪ.zəm/specializeda political system in which a single ruler, group, or political party has complete power over a country
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- apparatus
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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Examples from literature
- He was a thinker whose theories were strangely compounded of absolutism and democracy.
- Nationalities founded upon the principles of absolutism, embody and express the same laws and conditions.
- Now the power of absolutism was broken.
- Then psychology aspired to be a philosophy of real existence, and attacked both absolutism and materialism.
- We are far from any thoughts of democracy in the early struggles against the absolutism of the Crown.