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

The absolutistic hypothesis, that perfection is eternal, aboriginal, and most real, has a perfectly definite meaning, and it works religiously.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Using our old terms of comparison, we may say that the absolutistic scheme appeals to the tender-minded while the pluralistic scheme appeals to the tough.

From Pragmatism by James, William

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 James, William