absolutism
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Absolutism is always reductive, and therefore, like the inability to sympathize with one’s enemies, is an anathema to art.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2021
Absolutism is Winterson's forte, and it's the perfect mode to verify supernatural events when they occur.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2012
Absolutism was the political belief that one ruler should hold all the power within the boundaries of a country.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
I have fought for you and with you—with Gleb Saltykov and Anton Lensky, against the return of Absolutism in Russia.
From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George
As a German writer puts it, his despotism was a form of Patriarchal Absolutism.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
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