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Absolutist   Listen
noun
Absolutist  n.  
1.
One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
2.
(Metaph.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.





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"Absolutist" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Portuguese or Absolutist party, Pedro went his way, and, even in his latter days of rule, refused to sign Bills for the development of the Constitution. There was undoubtedly much now to unsettle the Brazilian populace. Disadvantageous ...
— South America • W. H. Koebel
... meet these non-pacifist arguments, and to persuade non-pacifists of goodwill that they can really best serve their highest values by adopting the pacifist technique. Such reasoning is perfectly legitimate, even for the "absolutist," but he should recognize it for what it is—a mere afterthought to his acceptance of non-violence as ...
— Introduction to Non-Violence • Theodore Paullin
... an absolutist; but the extreme monarchical party there wished for a king of more energy, and desired to raise to the throne his brother Don Carlos. In 1830 Ferdinand, being then childless, was induced by his wife, the daughter of Ferdinand ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher


Words linked to "Absolutist" :   absolutistic, absolutism


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