Ab"so*lu`tism (#), n.

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.

Doctrine of absolute decrees.

Ash.

 

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