absolutist
Example Sentences
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In November 1688 the absolutist and pro-Catholic king of England was overthrown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
Adam Candeub is a law professor and a former advisor to President Trump, who describes himself as a free speech absolutist.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
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
