| 单词 | absolutism |
| 释义 | absolutism (once / 4874 pages) 1n 2n Absolutism is the principle of complete and unrestricted government power, usually in the hands of one person, a dictator or despot. This word sounds big, but it's really just an extension of the word absolute. If you have absolute power, you control everything. The problem with this is that absolutism can survive only through dominance, threat of punishment, and violence — in other words, tyranny. And, as the British historian Lord Acton noted in 1887, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." WORD FAMILYabsolutism: absolutisms, absolutist, absolutistic+/absolute: absolutely, absoluteness, absolutes, absolutism/absolutist: absolutists/absolutistic: absolutistically USAGE EXAMPLESThe beliefs on the right happen to be a perfect wrapper for the drug since the right prides itself on faith in moral absolutism. Salon(Nov 27, 2016) Fine, but so much for moral absolutism, as with so many other conservative verities. US News(Oct 14, 2016) Flamed by a member of a white-power group, Turk’s anger grew into indiscriminate prejudice and hatred, though he wrestles with the absolutism of his beliefs. Washington Post(Oct 12, 2016) 1 1n a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) Syn|Hypo|Hyper Caesarism, Stalinism, authoritarianism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny police state a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) autarchy, autocracy a political system governed by a single individual 2n the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government Syn|Hyper totalism, totalitarianism ideology, political orientation, political theory an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation 3n dominance through threat of punishment and violence 2Syn|Hyper despotism, tyranny ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance the state that exists when one person or group has power over another n the doctrine of an absolute being Hyper doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
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