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absolutists

absolutists is the plural of absolutist.

Meaning of absolutist

Noun

absolutist (plural absolutists)

  1. One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
  2. (metaphysics) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.
    • the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutista. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood...
  3. An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.
    • The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Questions about absolutists

What is absolutists the plural of?
Absolutists is the plural of absolutist.

Words near absolutists in the dictionary

  1. absolutism
  2. absolutisms
  3. absolutist
  4. absolutistic
  5. absolutistically
  6. absolutists
  7. absolutival
  8. absolutive
  9. absolutive case
  10. absolutive cases
  11. absolutively

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