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absolutism

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ab·so·lut·is·m /ˈæbsəluːtɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]  PGa political system in which a ruler has complete power and authority 专制主义(制度),独裁政治
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absolutismThe state bureaucracies created by eighteenth-century absolutism signified the arrival of a universal class pursuing a universal interest.The result would, at best, have been clerical absolutism, at worst, Communist takeover or civil war.The tendency to ethnic absolutism and the one-party residue have reinforced one another in the Yugoslav successor states.But we do all recognise that without that balance, in certain instances, absolutism can easily spill over into extremism.Few today would hold any brief for a theory, such as Bodin's, serving to justify absolutism.By paving the way for a national free market, absolutism fostered capitalism.Since the 1960s there has been a marked shift from moral absolutism to relativism.Some of the absolutism of the early days of social investing seems to have given way to a new pragmatic activism.
ab·so·lut·is·m nounChineseSyllable
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absolutism
absolutism /ˈæbsəluːtɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]
a political system in which a ruler has complete power and authority


ab·so·lut·ismBrE /ˈæbsəluːtɪzəm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæbsəluːtɪzəm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a political system in which a ruler or government has total power at all times 专制制度;专制政体belief in a political, religious or moral principle which is thought to be true in all circumstances (政治、宗教、道德上的)绝对主义,绝对论,绝对原则 ab·so·lut·ist BrE /ˈæbsəluːtɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæbsəluːtɪst/ 🔊 noun, adjective