absolutism
noun
the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
absolutist
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a word derived from
absolutism.
Example Sentences
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Now Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, while also vowing to take a hard line on child exploitation, faces growing calls for enforcement around the world and in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
This can lead people to embrace authoritarian leaders, conspiracy theories or absolutist ideologies — not because they’re irrational, but because they are trying to escape uncertainty.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university warned that the ruling left institutions facing "opposing and irreconcilable duties" which rendered them "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Of course it was an orthodox and an almost rabid glorification of “sound” absolutist principles.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
