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Webster's Revised Unabridged 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.

Greek

5181. Turannos -- "absolute ruler," Tyrannus, an Ephesian
... Turannos. 5182 . "absolute ruler ... Word Origin of foreign origin Definition "absolute
ruler," Tyrannus, an Ephesian NASB Word Usage Tyrannus (1). Tyrannus. ...
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3841. pantokrator -- almighty
... almighty. 3841 (from 3956 , "all" and 2902 , "prevail") -- properly, ;
unrestricted power exercising absolute dominion. Word Origin ...
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1203. despotes -- lord, master
... [1203 () implies someone exercising "unrestricted power and absolute domination,
confessing no limitations or restraints" (R. Trench, 96).]. ...
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5598. O -- the last letter of the Gr. alphabet
... In the NT, 5598 ("") is always used of the glorified Christ (Rev 1:8, 21;6, 22:13),
referring to His absolute to meet all the needs of finite (limited) people. ...
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3724. horizo -- to mark off by boundaries, to determine
... term "" ("" comes from 3724 (), "to set ." 4309 ("-horizon, -determine") emphasizes
God's with, as operating in His perfect wisdom, absolute foreknowledge, etc ...
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4214. posos -- how much? how great?
... how great. From an absolute pos (who, what) and hos; interrogative pronoun (of amount)
how much (large, long or (plural) many) -- how great (long, many), what. ...
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4434. ptochos -- (of one who crouches and cowers, hence) beggarly ...
... From ptosso (to crouch); akin to ptoeo and the alternate of pipto); a beggar (as
cringing), ie Pauper (strictly denoting absolute or public mendicancy ...
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4268. prognosis -- foreknowledge
... Cognate: 4268 (from 4267 , "foreknow") -- properly, . 4268 () occurs twice
in the NT, both times of "God's absolute ." See 4267 (). ...
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3361. me -- not, that...not, lest (used for qualified negation)
... A primary particle of qualified negation (whereas ou expresses an absolute denial);
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a ...
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2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate
... vegetation"). This root () does "not suggest absolute barrenness but territory
affording free range for shepherds and their flocks. ...
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Library

Absolute Surrender
Absolute Surrender. <. Absolute Surrender Andrew Murray. Table of Contents.
Title Page. ABSOLUTE SURRENDER. "THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE". ...
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From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and ...
... Chapter IX."From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and
Xerophagies. This principal species in the category of dietary ...
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Affinity of Christianity, as Absolute Truth, for the Various ...
... THE JEWS. Section 28. Affinity of Christianity, as absolute Truth, for
the various opposing Religious Systems. On the dissolution ...
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Our Lord Has Said this Absolute Truth, that Unless we be Born ...
... Address 229: Our Lord has said this absolute truth, that unless we be born
again from above� Our Lord has said this absolute truth ...
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The Absolute God Entirely Incomprehensible by Man.
... Homily XIX. Chapter X."The Absolute God Entirely Incomprehensible by Man.
"For instance, then, what did you say in the beginning? ...
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Absolute Surrender
Absolute Surrender. <. ... ABSOLUTE SURRENDER. "And Ben-hadad the
king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there ...
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The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Salvation
... 4. The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Salvation. God'sabsolute and
irresistible proprietorship has been and is being displayed ...
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The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Creation
... 1. The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Creation. With whom took He counsel
in creation? Whom did He consult when He determined ...
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The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Administration
... 2. The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Administration. God not only created
everything, but everything which He created is subject to His immediate control. ...
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The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Giving of the Scriptures
... 3. The Absolute Godhood of God is Seen in Giving of the Scriptures. What part or
lot did man have in the composition of the Bible? None whatever. ...
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Thesaurus

Absolute (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted;
unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise ...
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Birthday (4 Occurrences)
... This need not be called "a case absolute," though it corresponds to the Latin ablative
(locative) absolute; and the Greek genitive absolute is itself not ...
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Creator (19 Occurrences)
... But the creative process is not a case of sheer almightiness, creating something
out of nothing, but an expression of God, as the Absolute Reason, under the ...
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Predestination
... Hodge has well remarked that, "rightly understood, this doctrine (1) exalts the
majesty and absolute sovereignty of God, while it illustrates the riches of his ...
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Omniscience
... 2. Tacit Assumption and Explicit Affirmation: Scripture everywhere teaches
the absolute universality of the divine knowledge. In ...
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Creation (35 Occurrences)
... immanent in its evolution. For God is the Absolute Reason, always immanent
in the developing universe. Apart from the cosmogonic ...
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Absolutely (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner;
wholly; positively. Multi-Version Concordance Absolutely (6 Occurrences). ...
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Eternity (23 Occurrences)
... not in the merely negative form of the non-temporal, or immeasurable time, but
positively, as the mode of the timeless self-existence of the Absolute Ground of ...
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Foreknowledge (2 Occurrences)
... In the most absolute sense his knowledge is infinite (1 Samuel 23:9-13; Jeremiah
38:17-23; 42:9-22, Matthew 11:21, 23; Acts 15:18). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Anthropomorphism
... Hence, it would be a mistake to suppose that our knowledge of God must remain
anthropomorphic in content, and cannot think the Absolute Being or Essence save ...
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Bible 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)

Subtopics

Absolute

Related Terms

Birthday (4 Occurrences)

Creator (19 Occurrences)

Predestination

Omniscience

Creation (35 Occurrences)

Absolutely (6 Occurrences)

Eternity (23 Occurrences)

Foreknowledge (2 Occurrences)

Anthropomorphism