absolute monarch

American  

[ab-suh-loot mahn-erk, mahn-ahrk] / ˈæb səˌlut ˈmɑn ərk, ˈmɑn ɑrk /

noun

1. the ruler in an absolute monarchy; a monarch with no constitutional limits on power.

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Example Sentences

Like a monarch, she is identified with the state, and like an absolute monarch, she identifies the state with herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2024

And the sultan of Brunei, an absolute monarch who imposes a hard-line interpretation of Islam, will also be among the guests.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

Francis, who as absolute monarch wields supreme legislative, executive and judicial power in Vatican City, has in many ways already convicted Becciu.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

If Westeros is going to have an absolute monarch, I think it could use one who’s at least paying attention to what’s going on around him.

From Slate • May 20, 2019

Since the Inca bureaucracy was so strongly identified with its godlike absolute monarch, it disintegrated after Atahuallpa’s death.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond