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absoluteness|ˈæbsəljuːtnɪs|
[f. absolute + -ness.]
The quality of being absolute (in various senses of the adj.).
†1. The quality of being complete or finished; completeness, perfection. Obs.
1570Dee Math. Præf. 16 The puritie, absolutenes..of Principall Geometrie. 1574Abp. Whitgift Def. Answ. Tract i. Wks. 1851 I. 173 The canonical scriptures are of that absoluteness and perfection that nothing may be taken away from them, nothing added to them. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 137 He findes not any such stability or absoluteness in his very Angels. 1692Bp. South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 36 There is nothing that can raise a man to that generous absoluteness of condition.
†2. Independence. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. 35 He pretended not to make any newe Philosophie, yet did vse the absolutenesse of his owne sense vpon the olde. 1652P. Sterry Eng. Deliv. North. Presb. Pref., Giving them a more Excellent Being in this Relative State and Subordination, than they had in their absolutenesse.
3. Unlimited or unrestrained authority; arbitrary rule.
1614Raleigh Hist. World. ii. 439 Monarches need not to feare any curbing of their absoluteness by mighty subjects, as long as by wisedome they keepe the heartes of the people. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 513 Alexander of Macedon..shall rule very powerfully and with great freedom and absoluteness. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers I. vi. 195 His brother and predecessor laid the foundation of that absoluteness. 1854Kingsley Alexandria iv. 158 Their belief in God's omnipotence and absoluteness dwindled into the most dark, and slavish, and benumbing fatalism.
4. Freedom from conditions; unconditional quality; unreservedness.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt 299 The excellency of the mercy promised, rather than any absoluteness in the promise. 1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 31 God's Decree, and the absoluteness or conditionality thereof. 1699Burnet 39 Articles (1700) xvii. 149 In the main points, the Absoluteness of the Decree, the Extent of Christ's Death, the Efficacy of Grace, and the Certainty of Perseverance, their opinions are the same.
5. Unconditioned or independent existence.
1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. (1875) iii. 68 Thus denying the absoluteness..the illimitability, by any category of quantity, of that one Eternal.
6. Positiveness, actuality; independent or objective reality.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 719 Sense considered alone by itself doth not reach to the Absoluteness either of the Natures, or of the Existence of things without us, it being as such, nothing but Seeming, Appearance, and Phancy. 1856R. A. Vaughan Ho. w. Myst. I. v. ii. 169 To gaze on the Divine Nature in its absoluteness and abstraction, apart from the manifestation of it to our intellect, our heart, and our imagination.
¶ Catachr. for obsoleteness. (See absolent.)
1612Brerewood Ess. Lang. & Rel. vi. 52 The Verses of the Salii..could hardly be understood..in the latter time of the Commonwealth, for the absoluteness of the Speech. |