absolutistic

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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

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

At the same time vague murmurs were heard in society against the absolutistic régime which had led Russia to the brink of utter ruin.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

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

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