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Definition of Absolute
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Absolute
Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch. Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space. Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative. Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. Authoritative; peremptory. Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative. In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity. Related Definitions:
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Absolute Quotations
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. Fidel Castro Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
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Absolute Translations
absolute in Dutch is absoluut, onvermengd absolute in French is ineluctable, absolu, complet absolute in German is absolut, absolut, unbedingt absolute in Italian is intero, assolutamente absolute in Portuguese is absoluto absolute in Spanish is cabal, absoluto, completo, absolut absolute in Swedish is absolut |
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