See Also: absolutist(medicine)
absolutist(dictionary)

absolutist (iou)



absolutist noun & adjective. M19.
[formed as ABSOLUTISM + -IST, after French absolutiste.]
A. noun.
Politics. A person who is in favour of absolute government. M19.
Philosophy. A person who maintains the absolute identity of subject and object. M19.
A person who maintains certain principles to be absolute, an uncompromising person; spec. (Hist.) a conscientious objector in the war of 1914-18 who refused to perform any compulsory service. E20.
b. adjective. Practising or supporting absolutism; despotic; uncompromising. M19.
absolu'tistic adjective M19.