See authoritarian on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1873 December [1872], Friedrich Engels, “Dell'autorità”, in Almanacco repubblicano per l'anno 1874; translated into English as “On Authority”, in Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 23, translation of original in Italian, 1988, page 425:",
"text": "Una rivoluzione è certamente la cosa più autoritaria che ci sia: è l'atto per il quale una parte della popolazione impone la sua volontà all'altra parte per mezzo di fucili, baionette e cannoni; mezzi autoritari, se ce ne sono; e il partito vittorioso, se non vuole aver combattuto invano, deve continuare questo dominio col terrore che le sue armi inspirano ai reazionari.",
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"ref": "2020 March 14, “What Did the Sudden Fall of the Berlin Wall Tell Us?”, in Minghui:",
"text": "It may be that precisely due to its weak nature, an authoritarian dictatorship needs rampant violence and lies to maintain its rule.",
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"ref": "2022, “September 25, 2022”, in Mainland Affairs Council, archived from the original on 2023-03-04, Chronology:",
"text": "Wang Yi blatantly intimidates the world at the UNGA. He is a cheat and bully on the global stage in fundamental violation of the facts. Democratic countries should clearly recognize and unify against the challenge of authoritarian intervention. The Republic of China is a sovereign state. Taiwan has never been part of the People's Republic of China in historical fact, international law, or reality.",
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"ref": "2025 April 16, Christian Wolmar, “Hugely impressed by China's high-speed rail network”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 42:",
"text": "Of course, in China everything is determined by the state. So many times, when I asked how China had managed to build this network so quickly, I was told that it was because the government had backed it. And, of course, there are fewer Nimbys in an authoritarian state.",
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"text": "But amid all the disruption and norm-breaking, it’s Mr. Trump’s apparently keen interest in shaping American culture that may be most intriguing. To critics, it’s nothing less than a sign of his authoritarian bent – reminiscent of the Stalin-esque playbook that made government diktats over artistic expression a feature of the old Soviet Union.",
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"text": "The dictator was an authoritarian.",
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"ref": "2020 April 14, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes, “Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority.",
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"ref": "2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "While his two predecessors had been authoritarians – they knew what they thought on the most contentious matters within Catholicism and imposed that view on the church regardless of dissenters – Francis preferred to work away patiently at building consensus and accommodating a variety of perspectives. To that end, he breathed new life into the system of regular gatherings – or synods – of bishops in Rome to debate pressing matters.",
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"One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority."
],
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"absolute",
"absolute"
],
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"obedience",
"obedience"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority."
],
"links": [
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"authority",
"authority"
]
]
}
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mutasalliṭ",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"word": "مُتَسَلِّط"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mustabidd",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"word": "مُسْتَبِدّ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dúcáizhě",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"word": "獨裁者 /独裁者"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "autoritář"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"word": "autoritaarinen johtaja"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "autoritario"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolytarchikós",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "απολυταρχικός"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ken'i shugisha",
"sense": "one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority",
"word": "権威主義者"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mángcóng zhě",
"sense": "one who follows authority",
"word": "盲從者 /盲从者"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who follows authority",
"word": "esivaltaa totteleva henkilö"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ken'i shugisha",
"sense": "one who follows authority",
"word": "権威主義者"
}
],
"word": "authoritarian"
}
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