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

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

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

The truth is that this Czar, albeit lacking the nerve of his sire, has from early youth shown the full absolutistic bent.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various