Crossword-Solution: ABSOLUTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Absolutism | n. | The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. |
| Absolutism | n. | Doctrine of absolute decrees. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “ABSOLUTISM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| the doctrine of an absolute being | 1 answer |
| DOGMA that God acts absolutely in matter of salvation | 1 answer |
| Doctrine of unlimited power | 1 answer |
| GOVERNMENT, form of | 1 answer |
| Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray | 1 answer |
| SPACE and time are absolutes, theories that | 1 answer |
| Dominance through threat of punishment and violence | 2 answers |
| fascism | 9 answers |
| czarism | 9 answers |
| Nazism | 9 answers |
| unlimited rule | 10 answers |
| Caesarism | 10 answers |
| ABSOLUTE monarchy | 12 answers |
| totalitarian government | 12 answers |
| autocracy | 15 answers |
| Despotism | 15 answers |
| dictatorship | 17 answers |
| tyranny | 19 answers |
| high hand | 31 answers |
| Coercion | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABSOLUTISM (5)
The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois.
Insurgent nobles, fighting priests, revolutionizing Americans, all sorts and conditions of men, all chances and changes of religious and military power, had ruled it with a temporary absolutism during their generation.
Unless you admit this, you fall into absolutism and tyranny; you recognize class privileges; you sanction slavery.
From the present ministry I could expect but little; they consisted of men, the greater part of whom had been either courtiers or employés of the deceased King Ferdinand, who were friends to absolutism, and by no means inclined to do or to favour anything calculated to give offence to the court of Rome, which they were anxious to conciliate, hoping that eventually it might be induced to recognize the young queen, not as the constitutional but as the absolute Queen Isabella the Second.
This is the root of all that absolutism and one‐sided dogmatism by which both philosophy and religion have been infested.
Quotes with ABSOLUTISM (3)
If you don’t have the faith in principles and you don’t believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won’t be able achieve anything in life.
Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2011).