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Absolutist means One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government..
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/ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst/ · noun
One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government..
the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist
When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.
The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”
The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.
Use absolutist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Absolutist means One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government..
Common synonyms include absolutistic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist
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