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absolutist

/ab-suh-loo-tiz-uhm/US // ˈæb sə luˌtɪz əm //UK // (ˈæbsəluːˌtɪzəm) //

专制主义者,绝对主义者,专制主义,绝对主义者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
    • : any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.

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Examples

  • Professional politicians usually keep their distance from absolutist movements.

  • His is the kind of black-and-white, moral absolutist thinking about politics one should grow out of after graduate school.

  • The Saudis fear, probably rightly, that real power sharing is impossible in an absolutist state.

  • Other countries that banned guns started with a less absolutist attitude towards civil liberties, and also, a lot fewer guns.

  • Taking an absolutist view on temporary cuts would rapidly make the whole pledge untenable.

  • He had stripped the magical prestige from the absolutist monarchy in France.

  • It will not be worship as with the Chinese absolutist, nor mere friendship, as in the code of many a radical.

  • Socialism would introduce, indeed, the most vexatious and all-encompassing absolutist government ever invented.

  • He was a statesman and he wanted to make the empire into a real state of the absolutist type.

  • They desire to employ it as a tool for their absolutist plans and adventurous world enterprises.