absoluteness

[Eng. (1) absolute (q.v.), and (2) suff. -ne the quality or state of.] I. The quality or state of being unlimited. 1. In a general sense: "The absolutene and illimited ne of his commi ion was much spoken of."- Lord Clarendon , viii. 2. Specially in power : Despotism. "They dre up power with all the splendour and temptation absolutene can add to it."- Locke . II. The quality or state of being unconditional. the absolutene of God's decrees and purposes." South : Sermons, viii. 241. ab-sol-û-tion, s. [Fr. absolution ; Ital. as so luzione ; fr. Lat. absolutio = acquittal, properly a loosing: absolvo to loosen from: ab = from; solva = to loosen, untie.] [ABSOLVE.] I. In a civil sense: 1. In ancient Rome: Acquittal in a court of law. 2. In Britain : "Absolution in the Civil Law imports a full acquittal of a person by some final sentence of law; also a temporary discharge of the further attendance upon a mesne proce through a failure or defect in pleading." (Ayliffe: Parergon Juris Canonic i.) "From both these letters it is plain that the Whig leaders had much difficulty in obtaining the absolution of Go dolphin."-Macaulay Hist. Eng., ch. xxii. II. In an ecclesiastical sense : the same absolutist footing." Times ' Corre spond. from Hungary, 1851 ab-sol-û-to-ry, a . [Eng. (1) absolute , and (2) suif. -ory relating to: in Ger. absolutorisch; Fr. absolutoire ; Lat. absolutorius = pertaining to acquittal.] Pertaining to acquittal; absolving; that absolves. "Though an absolutory sentence should be pronounced."-Ayliffe: Parergon Juris Canonic i.