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One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Of or pertaining to absolutism: despotic. "All these things were odious to the old governing classes of France; their spirit was absolutist, ecclesiastical, and military."-John Morley.