absolutistic
- a word derived from absolutism.
Example Sentences
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He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual service and partnership."
From Time Magazine Archive
Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reason, and religion, 307-22; as director of life, 58-59; career of, 275-78; in absolutistic morality, 442.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
What concerns us in this connection, however, is the nature of this absolutistic conception, and its bearings on the governance of human conduct.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
It means a real change of heart, a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this inductive view of the conditions of belief.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
