absolutistic
- a pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
- Wrote Giamatti: "Angry at change, rigid in the application of chauvinistic slogans, absolutistic in morality, they threaten through political pressure or public denunciation .
- Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them.
- He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual service and partnership.