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Absoluteness   Listen
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Absoluteness  n.  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Absoluteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... in that it subdues all things to the idea of the supreme Good, and denies to evil the right even to dispute the absoluteness of its sway, naturally seems to imply a pantheistic theory of the world. And Browning's insistence on the presence of the highest in all things may easily be regarded as a mere revival of the oldest and crudest attempts at finding their unity in God. ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones

... and understand God in the least degree, as well as in the greatest, only by the godlike within him; and he that loves thus the good and great has no room, no thought, no necessity for comparison and difference. The truth satisfies him. He lives in its absoluteness. God makes the glow-worm as well as the star; the light in both is divine. If mine be an earth-star to gladden the wayside, I must cultivate humbly and rejoicingly its green earth-glow, and not seek to blanch it to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the fields of blue. For ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1 • George MacDonald

... certain men wished to perpetuate not so much from self-interest as from a blind veneration for its age and traditions. To them even the interests of the people were of far less importance than the maintenance of this anachronism in its absoluteness. Where the German rulers had the intelligence to divert opposing forces and even to utilize them to their own benefit, the Russian autocrats fought them and ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various



Words linked to "Absoluteness" :   utterness, starkness, unchangingness, boundary, changelessness, unchangeability



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