absolutist

Variant of absolutism

noun

  1. the doctrine or system of government under which the ruler has unlimited powers; despotism
  2. the quality of being absolute
  3. Philos. any doctrine involving the existence of some metaphysical or axiological principle that is absolute, or not relative

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