nonabsolutist
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Etymology
From non- + absolutist.
Adjective
nonabsolutist (comparative more nonabsolutist, superlative most nonabsolutist)
- Not absolutist.
- 2012, Fritz Allhoff, Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, page 121:
- If it is nonabsolutist, then there has to be some way to extract concessions about the permissibility of torture; such is a conceptual requirement of nonabsolutist theories.
- 2016, David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, page 213:
- Therefore, in addition to noting the similarities between the "new Nietzsche" and nonabsolutist institutionalism, we want to show briefly what, specifically, a reading of Nietzsche adds to the institutionalist treatment of values.
- 2019, John Gascoigne, Science and the State, page 54:
- As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
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