absolutist

plural absolutists · alternative absolutistic

1. One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.First known use mid 19th c.
2. metaphysicsOne who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.First known use mid 19th c.

   the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist

   a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC

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   When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.

   1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth

3. An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.First known use early 20th c.

   The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”

   2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

comparative more absolutist · superlative most absolutist · alternative absolutistic

1. Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.First known use mid 19th c.

   The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.

   1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe