
1) Ascendance 2) Ascendancy 3) Ascendence 4) Ascendency 5) Control 6) Despotism 7) Doctrine of unlimited power 8) Dominance 9) Tyranny
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- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
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A system of government where all political power rests with one
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doctrine of government by a single absolute ruler; autocracy
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• (n.) The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. • (n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
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the political doctrine and practice of unlimited, centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator. The ... [31 related articles]
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In philosophy, a term that has been used to convey two quite separate and distinct ideas. The first, which is associated with Hegel, refers to the ideal and evolving nature of ultimate reality which...
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System of government in which the ruler or rulers have unlimited power and are subject to no constitutional safeguards or checks. The principle of an absolute monarch, given a right to rule by God...
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Ab'so·lu`tism noun 1. The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. « The element of
absolutism and prelacy was controlling.
Palfrey. »
2. (Theol.) Doct...
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in political philosophy, the view that absolute rule is the most desirable, or the least inadequate.
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Absolutism or Absolute Monarchy is a system of government where the hereditary ruler, usually a king, has complete power to decide a country's internal and external policy without having to consult anyone. A good example of an absolute monarchy was Louis XIV of France. The French Revolution heralded the end of absolutism, and in the nineteenth cent...
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System where the rulers have unlimited control.
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[
n] - dominance through threat of punishment and violence 2. [n] - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government 3. [n] - the doctrine of an absolute being
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totalism noun the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
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noun the doctrine of an absolute being
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(government) System of government in which the ruler or rulers have unlimited power and are subject to no constitutional safeguards or checks. The principle of an absolute monarch, given a right to rule by God (the divine right of kings), was extensively used in Europe during the 17th and 18th...
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the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
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the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government. · any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.
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A type of generally unrestrained monarchical power.
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