Dogma is that portion of doctrine which has been elevated by decree of ecclesiastical authority, or even only by common consent, into an absoluteness which is altogether foreign to its nature.
"Edward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant"
Edward Moore
The great and characteristic point with him was the perfect absoluteness of his own emotions and experience.
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
As opposed to the delicately adjusted hierarchical notions of Feudalism, which did not recognize any absoluteness of dominion either over persons or things, in short for which neither the head of the State had any inviolate authority as such, nor private property any inviolable rights or sanctity as such, the new jurisprudence made corner-stones of both these conceptions.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax