Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being absolute; independence; completeness; the state of being subject to no extraneous restriction or control; positiveness; perfection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being absolute
- noun the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
Etymologies
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Examples
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If some rules are aboslute, do they vanish when their absoluteness is challenged?
Wilde: Notes, outline fantasyecho 2006
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L results; that is to say, the so-called absoluteness arguments are missing.
Kurt Gödel Kennedy, Juliette 2007
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It is the "absoluteness" of the proponents 'convictions and the ruthless persecution of anyone who doesn't share their views that prevents not only a real conversation but new approaches or solutions to some of the problems facing our country.
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This kind of absoluteness of human knowledge caused errors in the German school, which I have already discussed.
Antonio Rosmini Cleary, Denis 2001
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His insight has that absoluteness which is beyond the reach of intellect alone.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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Secondly, they have both a kind of absoluteness which raises them above earthly things.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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Dogma is that portion of doctrine which has been elevated by decree of ecclesiastical authority, or even only by common consent, into an absoluteness which is altogether foreign to its nature.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900
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He had never been more impressed by the kind of absoluteness that lifted her beauty above the transient effects of other women, making the most harmonious face seem an accidental collocation of features.
The Touchstone 1900
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He had never been more impressed by the kind of absoluteness that lifted her beauty above the transient effects of other women, making the most harmonious face seem an accidental collocation of features.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1899
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Secondly, they have both a kind of absoluteness which raises them above earthly things.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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