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AB'SOLUTELY, adverb

1. Completely, wholly, as a thing is absolutely unintelligible.

2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected

Absolutely we cannot discommend, we cannot absolutely approve, either willingness to live, or forwardness to die.

3. Without restriction or limitation; as God reigns absolutely

4. Without condition, as God does not forgive absolutely but upon condition of faith and repentance.

5. Positively, peremptorily, as command me absolutely not to go.