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 Irwin Edman
The absolutistic hypothesis, that perfection is eternal, aboriginal, and most real, has a perfectly definite meaning, and it works religiously.
From Pragmatism by William James
It means a real change of heart, a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this view of the conditions of belief.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
