Absolutism vs Conversatism - What's the difference?
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(theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
(political science) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
:* The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. - Palfrey
(philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
(lb) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
* 2003 , Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language (ISBN 0226903184):
absolutism
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(en noun)- It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.