absolutist
Example Sentences
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In November 1688 the absolutist and pro-Catholic king of England was overthrown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Despite her reputation in some quarters as a free-speech absolutist — a stroke of branding genius on her part — she is in fact an anti-speech activist.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
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 warned that the ruling left institutions facing "opposing and irreconcilable duties" which rendered them "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Thus when Louis XIV. took into his own hands the government of France, the absolutist principle was triumphant all over Europe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
