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

What concerns us in this connection, however, is the nature of this absolutistic conception, and its bearings on the governance of human conduct.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

But the spirit of the Roman empire was too absolutistic to abandon the prerogative of a supervision of public worship.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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