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adjective

authoritarian adj.

Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; of governments or rulers; as, an authoritarian regime

Synonyms: autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical

Expecting unquestioning obedience: "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter".

Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing

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Etymology of 'Authoritarian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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