Usually means: Absolute power centralized in monarchy.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word absolutism:

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  1. absolutism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. absolutism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absolutism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absolutism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absolutism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absolutism, absolutism: Wordnik
  7. absolutism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. absolutism: Wiktionary
  9. absolutism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absolutism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absolutism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Absolutism, absolutism: Dictionary.com
  13. Absolutism (European history), Absolutism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Absolutism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. absolutism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. absolutism: Rhymezone
  17. Absolutism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. absolutism: Free Dictionary
  19. absolutism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. absolutism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. absolutism: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. absolutism: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. absolutism: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. The Ism Book (No longer online)

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  1. absolutism: Legal dictionary

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  1. Absolutism (disambiguation), absolutism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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noun:  (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
noun:  (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
noun:  (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
noun:  Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
noun:  (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.

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