Vocabulary Word
Word: absolute
Definition: complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism
Definition: complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism
Sentences Containing 'absolute'
``In the first place,''replied Mr. Gardiner,``there is no absolute proof that they are not gone to Scotland.''
And in art it is the same; all those who have aimed at an absolute perfection have usually ended in a deadness.
It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until he has brought it to absolute perfection.
So here was the novelty of a king without a keeper, an absolute monarch who was absolute in sober truth and not by a fiction of words.
The owners and captains were the only obstruction that lay between the association and absolute power; and at last this one was removed.
For we were in the absolute South now no modifications, no compromises, no half way measures.
The value, both of their produce and of their rent, is in proportion to their absolute, and not to their relative fertility.
Under all absolute governments, there is more liberty in the capital than in any other part of the country.
She might, perhaps, have gained an absolute, but she would certainly have lost a relative advantage.
But the temporal power of the clergy, the absolute command which they had once had over the great body of the people was very much decayed.
The sovereign feels that he must provide for such exigencies by saving, because he foresees the absolute impossibility of borrowing.
If an absolute and unavoidable necessity, why doest thou resist?
The wonder, indeed, is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been detected.
And what have we to oppose to such a cloud of witnesses, but the absolute impossibility or miraculous nature of the events, which they relate?
They durst not assert the absolute insufficiency of human evidence, to prove a miracle.
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
However innocent he might be, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the circumstances were very black against him.
"I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe.
The shutters cut off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness.
"'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after?
Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country.
Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind.
Mr. Dick professed an absolute certainty of having seen him before, and we both said, 'Very likely.'
Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.
But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection--absolute permanency.
He took up the lamp, and, in an absolute silence, we returned to the smoking-room.
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
Their defense was that they enjoyed absolute immunity due to their professional positions.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) won an absolute majority after winning 62 seats.
Absolute majorities are considered rare in Germany.
A related, less absolute, policy may be called North American energy security.
Farmer did not, however, find the employer's right to hold captive audience meetings absolute.
This continued until 1660, when a hereditary and absolute monarchy was instituted by Frederick III.
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Its exegetical value is diminished by Theodore's absolute confidence in the Septuagint.
Its philosophy teaches that there is a transcendent God, or Absolute, in which we and the entire universe participate.
During this time, the Indian population continued to grow in absolute terms due to natural increase.
The commune has an absolute Székely Hungarian majority.
God is the absolute Ego, and the empirical egos are his instruments.
French ascendancy was made absolute over the next decade.
The election returned a hung parliament with no party having an absolute majority.
However, this does not give license to absolute contingency.
At the age of 12, he was noted to possess absolute pitch.
The main feature, as we view it now, was the insistence on absolute cleanliness.
To convert his dreams into absolute realities, Consortium financed his start up.
In both cases, the difference of a preceding absolute position from the present absolute position yields the relative motion of the object or finger during that time.
"Ascending" philosophies are those that embrace the One, or the Absolute.
The game, however, turned into an absolute rout and an embarrassment for Cork.
A typical Baroque absolute ruler, he died at Ansbach in 1667.