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Authoritarian   /əθˌɔrətˈɛriən/   Listen
Authoritarian

adjective
1.
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty.  Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical.  "Autocratic government" , "Despotic rulers" , "A dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war" , "A tyrannical government"
2.
Expecting unquestioning obedience.  Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing.  "Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
noun
1.
A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner.  Synonym: dictator.



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"Authoritarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... remarkable movement, which has never yet been properly studied, that modern Socialism was born—Fourierism with L'Ange, at Lyons, and authoritarian Communism with Buonarroti, Babeuf, and their comrades. And it was immediately after the Great Revolution that the three great theoretical founders of modern Socialism—Fourier, Saint Simon, and Robert Owen, as well as Godwin (the No-State Socialism)—came forward; while the ...
— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... himself among the supporters of the Perronean Ultramontanism, and became, as was natural, considering his character, a furious authoritarian. This sombre man, whose vocation was repugnant to him, who had not the least religious feeling, who could perhaps have been a good soldier, took a long time to make himself perfectly at home in monastic life, struggled against the chains ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja



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