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noun dominance through threat of punishment and violence
noun a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
noun the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
originFirst attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute + -ism, based after French absolutisme.
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