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absolutist





NOUN
authoritarian
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A related role for Turley is, as he puts it, a Free Speech Absolutist or Internet Originalist.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2022

“This letter is so pathetic in terms of whining: Mr. Free Speech Absolutist, just a crybaby hiding behind his lawyers,” O’Dowd said in an interview.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

“This letter is so pathetic in terms of whining: Mr. Free Speech Absolutist, just a crybaby hiding behind his lawyers,” Mr. O’Dowd told The Washington Post.

From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Absolutist revolutions, religions and moralities have all foundered on the problems of pain and how to cure it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Austin in 1832 wrote to Mrs. Carlyle, "I am that monster made up of all the Whigs hate—a Radical and an Absolutist."

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John




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