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Absolutist   /æbsɪlˈutɪst/   Listen
Absolutist

noun
1.
One who advocates absolutism.





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"Absolutist" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Navy Bill means an instrument to further their unlimited Weltpolitik and schemes of conquest; a weapon with which to realize their mad imaginings of a greater Germany. They desire to employ it as a tool for their absolutist plans and ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith
... battles were so far-reaching in their consequences as Bouvines (1214), to which England owes her Magna Carta, Germany the magnificent and stormy autumn of the Hohenstauffen dynasty, France the consolidation of her long-divided provinces under an absolutist monarchy. ...
— Medieval Europe • H. W. C. Davis
... marriage with Edith (who claimed release from vows taken under compulsion in a convent at Romsey), and his fidelity at the critical time when Robert of Normandy and the discontented nobles threatened the safety of the Crown was invaluable. But Henry was an absolutist, anxious for all the threads of power to be in his own hands; and just when a great Church Council at the Lateran had decided that bishops must not be invested by kings with the ring and staff of their office, because by such investiture they were the ...
— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton


Words linked to "Absolutist" :   absolutism, adherent, disciple


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