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Definition of absolutist in English: absolutistnoun absəˈluːtɪstˌæbsəˈl(j)udəst A person who holds absolute principles in political, philosophical, or theological matters. he was a moral absolutist with little patience for shades of grey Example sentencesExamples - If the absolutist wishes to maintain his objection, he must point to some morally relevant difference between positive and negative killing.
- Those absolutists who extol the virtues of free trade without addressing its costs are urging us to build an incomplete trade policy.
- She is an absolutist, despising those opportunists who take time out of normal life for a little promiscuity.
- Despite the protests of First Amendment absolutists, both of these measures would probably be constitutional.
- His most renowned protagonist is an absolutist.
- What we get here is a monarchical absolutist who gradually discovers his humanity.
- Ethical absolutists will argue that once we allow cloning, even for therapeutic purposes, there'll be no turning back.
- There seem to be good reasons for utilitarians to be in favor of it, and absolutists cannot object to it on the ground that it involves killing the innocent.
- According to the absolutist, the parts of space are necessarily related to one another in an unchangeable order or arrangement.
- I'm by no means any sort of information-wants-to-be-free absolutist.
adjective absəˈluːtɪstˌæbsəˈl(j)udəst Relating to or supporting absolute principles. an absolutist political tradition these claims might strike many people as absolutist and extreme Example sentencesExamples - The growth of royal power led to the development of an absolutist state at the end of the seventeenth century.
- An absolutist account of individual rights leaves no opportunity to formulate more stringent policies for the procurement of organs.
- What's missing is the anchoring of endangered species protection within the human and natural economy, rather than within absolutist, moral rhetoric.
- Indeed, it is an absolutist claim echoed in a leading article in the journal.
- All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium.
- I am suspicious of such absolutist pronouncements in so collaborative an artistic medium.
- Prospero is an inherently unstable combination of Puritan reformer and absolutist ruler of the island.
- It complicates the way critics employ stereotype-centered criticism to produce absolutist, value-based judgments.
- At the same time, rural interests often take an absolutist view of property rights.
- The inner life of a nation is linked with the modern mass army in a way it could not have been with the absolutist armies of the earlier period.
Definition of absolutist in US English: absolutistnounˌabsəˈl(y)o͞odəstˌæbsəˈl(j)udəst A person who holds absolute principles in political, philosophical, or theological matters. he was a moral absolutist with little patience for shades of gray Example sentencesExamples - What we get here is a monarchical absolutist who gradually discovers his humanity.
- Those absolutists who extol the virtues of free trade without addressing its costs are urging us to build an incomplete trade policy.
- Ethical absolutists will argue that once we allow cloning, even for therapeutic purposes, there'll be no turning back.
- His most renowned protagonist is an absolutist.
- Despite the protests of First Amendment absolutists, both of these measures would probably be constitutional.
- According to the absolutist, the parts of space are necessarily related to one another in an unchangeable order or arrangement.
- She is an absolutist, despising those opportunists who take time out of normal life for a little promiscuity.
- If the absolutist wishes to maintain his objection, he must point to some morally relevant difference between positive and negative killing.
- I'm by no means any sort of information-wants-to-be-free absolutist.
- There seem to be good reasons for utilitarians to be in favor of it, and absolutists cannot object to it on the ground that it involves killing the innocent.
adjectiveˌabsəˈl(y)o͞odəstˌæbsəˈl(j)udəst Relating to or supporting absolute principles. an absolutist political tradition these claims might strike many people as absolutist and extreme Example sentencesExamples - An absolutist account of individual rights leaves no opportunity to formulate more stringent policies for the procurement of organs.
- I am suspicious of such absolutist pronouncements in so collaborative an artistic medium.
- Prospero is an inherently unstable combination of Puritan reformer and absolutist ruler of the island.
- The inner life of a nation is linked with the modern mass army in a way it could not have been with the absolutist armies of the earlier period.
- All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium.
- What's missing is the anchoring of endangered species protection within the human and natural economy, rather than within absolutist, moral rhetoric.
- Indeed, it is an absolutist claim echoed in a leading article in the journal.
- It complicates the way critics employ stereotype-centered criticism to produce absolutist, value-based judgments.
- The growth of royal power led to the development of an absolutist state at the end of the seventeenth century.
- At the same time, rural interests often take an absolutist view of property rights.
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