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Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

2. (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

3. (a.) 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.

4. (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

5. (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

6. (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

7. (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.

8. (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

9. (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

10. (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Multi-Version Concordance

Absolute (5 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 13:2 If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing. (WEY)

2 Corinthians 4:8 We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled; (WEY)

2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you. (WEY)

1 Timothy 5:2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity. (See NIV)

Hebrews 1:8 But of His Son, He says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and for ever, and the sceptre of Thy Kingdom is a sceptre of absolute justice. (WEY)




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