absolutistic

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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

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

But the single moral course is clear; there is no alternative; in absolutistic morals there are no extenuating circumstances.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

That temporally disastrous consequence is, from an absolutistic point of view, a totally irrelevant consideration, as is also the pain we feel Page 443 in telling the truth under such conditions.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Using our old terms of comparison, we may say that the absolutistic scheme appeals to the tender-minded while the pluralistic scheme appeals to the tough.

From Pragmatism by James, William