0 a political system in which a single ruler, group, or political party has complete power over a country
1 a political system in which a single leader controls all branches of government and has authority over everyone and everything in the country
He was a thinker whose theories were strangely compounded of absolutism and democracy.
Nationalities founded upon the principles of absolutism, embody and express the same laws and conditions.
Then psychology aspired to be a philosophy of real existence, and attacked both absolutism and materialism.
We are far from any thoughts of democracy in the early struggles against the absolutism of the Crown.
For their productivity mission, and thus for imposing managerial absolutism, employers also relied on the sweeping offensive and sympathy lockouts.
That, and that we are disturbed by the absolutism and the immovability of death.
This too was a consequence of absolutism as now understood.
