absolutisticadj.

1841 F. Jones tr. K. W. R. von Rotteck Hist. World IV. iii. 317 Another change of the great political relations..celebrates its most brilliant triumph over the reinforced, absolutistic opposition, in the July-days of Paris.

1879 Appletons' Jrnl. July 64/2 One had everything to fear from the absolutistic power of Russia.

1905 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) iii. 57 It means..a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this inductive view of the conditions of belief.

1940 Mind 49 426 Hegel..used his principle of the identity of reason and reality..to defend the idea of the absolutistic state.

1960 K. H. Hansen Philos. for Amer. Educ. 102 A world of ever-widening dimensions does not support a narrow, closed, fixed, absolutistic world-view.

2002 C. Tonkin Consulting Mastery iv. 40 In the absolutistic world, people adhere to authority for the sake of stability.

1851 Times 22 Dec. 3/2 The present absolutistical atmosphere of Europe, is not very propitious to American principles.

1925 M. Eastman Since Lenin Died 106 All the old religious, theological, metaphysical, absolutistical..habits of the human race are against him [sc. Trotsky].

1872 Ladies' Repository Dec. 413/1 The idea of sovereignty, as afterwards absolutistically developed in the Roman empire.

1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe 365 An ipse dixit of Mr. Bradley's absolutistically tempered ‘understanding’.

2003 B. I. Kodish Dare to Inquire ii. xiii. 182 We make perfectionistic demands on ourselves, unconditionally and absolutistically telling ourselves what we ‘must’ do.