Absolutism
['æbsəluːtɪz(ə)m] or ['æbsəlutɪzəm]
解釋/意思:
(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.
安格斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
(n.) Doctrine of absolute decrees.
手打:内蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Absoluteness, arbitrariness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy.
編輯:塞格雷
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:斯蒂芬妮