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
Concretely, one may take the absolutistic attitude toward a specific virtue: honesty.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
Unless we assume the existence of an absolutistic teleological tendency to perfection, we are logically bound to connect upward development with favorable external conditions.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
It means a real change of heart, a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this view of the conditions of belief.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
