absolutist
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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 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 said the ruling would leave institutions "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
She was a First Amendment absolutist when it came to humor, but comedy evolves and one generation’s daring hilarity is another’s insensitive cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
It had been behind the revolution that had recreated an absolutist monarchy in Spain.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
