absolutist

Example Sentences

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Now Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, while also vowing to take a hard line on child exploitation, faces growing calls for enforcement around the world and in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

This can lead people to embrace authoritarian leaders, conspiracy theories or absolutist ideologies — not because they’re irrational, but because they are trying to escape uncertainty.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.

From Slate • May 30, 2025

She was a First Amendment absolutist when it came to humor, but comedy evolves and one generation’s daring hilarity is another’s insensitive cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

It made a great sweep of the chief injustices of the absolutist regime; it abolished tax exemptions, serfdom, aristocratic titles and privileges and sought to establish a constitutional monarchy in Paris.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)