(n.) One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
(n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
(a.) Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banditry and disorder metastasise into a threat – which, by virtue of its simple, harsh and absolutist appeal, then begins to replicate itself everywhere where authority is weak.
(2) He speaks to the need for a rational faith or belief in values like dignity, or even an afterlife … Then you have Carrot and Vimes, or the relativist versus the moral absolutist.
(3) The absolutist on the abortion issue, until he is sure that an IUD never works by destroying an embedded embryo, must logically eschew this technique, advising his patient as to his ethical objections.
(4) However Julia Powles, a law researcher at Cambridge University, said: "The way that the ruling is currently being implemented adds strength to those who take an absolutist position in favour of free speech and free enterprise.
(5) Ferguson's absolutist, warrior-like leadership of United has helped the word Manchester to mean something modern and vital around the world wherever football shirts are sold and worn.
(6) The Nazi policies of mass murder and the Holocaust were crimes against humanity and the ruins of Auschwitz stand as a terrible warning of where race hatred, religious intolerance, narrow-minded nationalism and absolutist political and religious dogma can lead.
(7) Here, we're taught from an early age to be absolutist in our defense of free speech.
(8) His own absolutist theory (held by many, but not all, Catholic moralists), which derives from the principles that fundamental human goods may not be intentionally violated, cannot dispense with such exceptions, although he rightly rejects some widely held views about what they are.
(9) By contrast, Kantian absolutist theory, which derives from the principle that lawful freedom must not be violated, has a corollary--that it is a duty, where possible, to coerce those who try to violate lawful freedom--which makes superfluous many of the double-effect exceptions Boyle allows.
(10) A deal is doable and desirable, because at heart the Korean issue is not about absolutist ideology or faith or race or even weapons proliferation.
(11) Ido love me a good cult; and the weirder they are, the more deranged, the more coercive, mind-erasing, wallet-draining, sexually absolutist and murderous they are, and the more they lure their members into a realm of isolation, rote repetition, low-protein diets, 36-hour work shifts, constant exhaustion and the ever-present fear of public shaming or shunning over some minute dogmatic or ideological shortcoming, oh, the better I like them.
(12) At first it can be seen as symbolic expression of rejected anxiety and guilt feelings of the bourgoisie after having thrown the absolutistic institution from power.
(13) The authorities reassure us by saying there is no immediate danger and a few absolutist environmentalists obsessed with nuclear power because of the urgency to limit emissions repeat the industry mantra that only a few people died at Chernobyl – the worst nuclear accident in history.
(14) Gillon concludes that, while the doctrine of double effect is unlikely to be accepted fully by non-absolutists, some of its claims are useful in deciding which clinical interventions are morally justified.
(15) Joseph Boyle raises important questions about the place of the double-effect exception in absolutist moral theories.
(16) Because while in a free-speech absolutist paradise words are just words and everyone just gets over it, we live in a real world where obsessive hatreds can manifest as violence.
(17) The medieval game of thrones that is the absolutist Saudi system cannot endure.
(18) Clare Oxborrow, GM campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said: "We have never taken an absolutist position on GM crops but it's too early to say if we would accept something like this given all the concerns about safety and environmental impact of GM.
(19) A decision to freeze the tax take at a particular level, regardless of the spending needs left unmet and the services left unavailable, is an incremental judgment call rather than some kind of absolutist decree.
(20) They put in place an absolutist cornerstone of the process of rule-of-law, as establishing numbers of missing persons is also vital for any war crimes trials.
Ukase
Definition:
(n.) In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.