Absolute

While Americans enjoy an almost absolute freedom to name their children whatever they please, in Germany the State (as public guardian of the good of the child) restricts parents [...]

An absolute monarch is free from all forcible restraint, and so far as he is absolute[,] from all legal restraints of positive laws.

The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, / With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed.

[…] the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.

absolute purity, absolute liberty

So absolute she seems, / And in herself complete.

Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.

absolute alcohol

an absolute denial of all charges

When caught, he told an absolute lie.

You're an absolute genius!

The growth and acceptance of this idea followed Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements, which suggested that famines occur not from an absolute lack of food but from people's inability to obtain access to that food.

Yet if the register is not to be absolute evidence of proprietorship, it is clear that some investigation of title would still be necessary.

[...] and in the absence of other signs, or when these latter are inconclusive, it is extremely useful. But it is not, under any circumstances, absolute evidence of the syphilitic nature of a given symptom or set of symptoms.

Unless the determined lease to which the easements relate has been registered with title absolute and the easements have been entered without qualification in the register for that title, evidence must be lodged to prove [...]

I am absolute ’twas very Cloten.

The colour of my hair—he cannot tell, Or answers "dark," at random,—while, be sure, He's absolute on the figure, live or ten, Of my last subscription.

the doctrine that absolute knowledge of things is possible; an absolute principle

Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

His experiments led him to infer that the boiling point of the substance is probably below 9 degrees absolute.

This new absolute temperature scale (also called the Kelvin scale) employs the SI unit of absolute temperature, the kelvin, […]

Even when the absolute form of an adverb ends in -ly, the comparative and superlative are identical with the corresponding forms of the adjective: badly, worse, worst.

absolute deviation

absolute square

mean absolute difference

absolute music

A freehold property is an estate in fee simple absolute in possession.

moral absolutes

There is a well-known generalization that human rights come before property rights. […] Unqualified absolutes like these do not contain the truth as tested by human experience. What we do say is that human rights and property rights are related to one another, are intertwined with one another, work with and play upon one another.

But if the psychoanalytic mood seems gloomy or pretentious, one may merely think of Anna as a person who comes to deal in absolutes: unconditional demands, total fears, extremities of power and subservience, […]

Notice the use of unconditional absolutes in each of these statements. They are the words always, never, and forever. The illusion of absolutes is the ultimate pathological double bind. Yet the only absolute is that there are no absolutes.

This is important to understand, for when we see that the knowledge of good and evil is an absolute, we realize we can have absolutely no say in what it is or is not. Pause for a moment and consider that. Mathematicians work in absolutes.

The reason is that we are confronted here with a genuine moral dilemma, i.e. a clash of two moral absolutes – the unconditional right to protection of the fetus from the point of fertilization; and the unconditional protection of the right to choose of the pregnant woman.

Often one is dealing not with absolutes (complete stability) but with relative differences in rate (see below).

When discussing these concepts, it is unreasonable to expect absolutes. Complete impact, complete compliance with Court decisions, and complete implementation are a myth even for the most admired Supreme Court decisions.

Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute.

Complete concentration in a vacuum still at low temperature results in a concentrated flower oil, free from alcohol, the so-called absolute of enfleurage. The crude absolutes of enfleurage are usually of dark color and, because of their fat content, […]

The main difference between these and those of indifferent quality is that the former contain flower absolutes in fairly large proportion and the latter either an insignificant quantity or […]