Absolutism

(noun.) the doctrine of an absolute being.

(noun.) the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government.

(noun.) dominance through threat of punishment and violence.

安格斯校对

• An absolutism like Russia's is served better when the people accept their ideas as authoritative and piously sacrifice humanity to a non-human purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the old absolutisms the monarch was either God himself or the adopted agent of God; the Kaiser took God for his trusty henchman. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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