absolutistic

Unless we assume the existence of an absolutistic teleological tendency to perfection, we are logically bound to connect upward development with favorable external conditions.

It means a real change of heart, a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this view of the conditions of belief.

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

What concerns us in this connection, however, is the nature of this absolutistic conception, and its bearings on the governance of human conduct.

But the spirit of the Roman empire was too absolutistic to abandon the prerogative of a supervision of public worship.