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Definition of Absolutisms
1. absolutism [n] - See also: absolutism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolutisms
Literary usage of Absolutisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cameralists: The Pioneers of German Social Polity by Albion Woodbury Small (1909)
"The critical fact in the quasi-absolutisms of this period, from our present point
of view, was that the people, in the modern sense, had no initiative in ..."
2. Ideals of America: Analyses of the Guiding Motives of Contemporary American by City Club of Chicago (1919)
"And so, just as in the absolutisms the stress was laid upon thought, in pragmatism
the stress was ... For the absolutisms, reality, in its proper nature, ..."
3. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"But history shows me rationalistic absolutisms, to a certain extent; also, liberal
absolutisms, cherishing discussion, and even absolutist parliaments. ..."
4. Russia's Message: The True World Import of the Revolution by William English Walling (1908)
"absolutisms arise from and are nourished by war. And without wars all absolutisms
will perish. With no prospect of patriotic bloodshed the doom of the ..."
5. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1865)
"... as if all absolutisms, whether regal, aristocratic, mob, or majority absolutisms,
do not mean by liberty of the press, liberty to publish only what is ..."
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