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单词 absolutist
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Definition of absolutist in English:

absolutist

noun 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:

absolutist

nounˌabsəˈl(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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