Definitions
perfect or complete or pure
Word origin
First attested around 1380. From Middle English absolut, from Middle French absolut, from Latin absolūtus (“unconditional; unfettered; completed”), perfect passive participle of absolvō (“loosen, set free, complete”), from ab (“away”) + solvo (“to loose”). Influenced in part by Old French absolu. Compare absolve.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Complete and total”8 letters
02“Complete or total”8 letters
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