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Definition of Absolutists
1. absolutist [n] - See also: absolutist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolutists
Literary usage of Absolutists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1903)
"To intimate that all the vagabonds of the world were against us, including
extremists and absolutists, was rather unkind to our friend the Sultan of Turkey ..."
2. The History of England by George Charles Brodrick, John Knight Fotheringham (1906)
"What was their surprise when they discovered that the king XII- had indeed
determined to procrastinate, but in such a way as to displease the absolutists as ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1829)
"... and Officers of the Army are dismissed to make room for absolutists—The
Constitutionalists begin to emigrate — The British Troops embark to return to ..."
4. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"496, and 252 of them occurred among absolutists and 244 among the non-absolutists.
The absolutists showed on an average 6 per cent less mortality than the ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1829)
"... Riots— The Constitutional Governors of the Provinces, and Officers of the Army
are dismissed to make room for absolutists— The Constitutionalists begin ..."
6. Sdi: A View From Europe by Robert C. Hughes (1995)
"... THE PURISTS and absolutists: ALL and NOTHING In one group are those who demand
or expect, depending on whether they are critic or advocate, ..."
7. The History of Brazil: From the Period of the Arrival of the Braganza Family by John Armitage (1836)
"... the favourite— Operations of the absolutists. SCARCELY had the insurrection
in Pernambuco been quelled, when the troops in Bahia rose against Felisberto ..."
8. History of the Counter-revolution in England: For the Re-establishment of by Armand Carrel, Charles James Fox (1846)
"... and ihe absolutists, at fix hend of the coupler-revolution— Rupture between
the king and the predominant party— Death of the I:ing ..."
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