absolutistic

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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

The absolutistic hypothesis, that perfection is eternal, aboriginal, and most real, has a perfectly definite meaning, and it works religiously.

From Pragmatism by James, William

But the spirit of the Roman empire was too absolutistic to abandon the prerogative of a supervision of public worship.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

In its emphasis on the autonomy and integrity of moral action, even its opponents credit the Kantian or absolutistic position with having hit upon a genuinely moral aspect of human action.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin