unipersonalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unipersonal + -ist.
Noun
[edit]unipersonalist (plural unipersonalists)
- (theology) One who believes in a unipersonal deity, i.e. that God is one being, while being the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- 2004, George F. McLean, Robert R. Magliola, William Fox, Democracy: In the Throes of Liberalism and Totalitarianism, page 101:
- This dictates the reasonableness of the rupture of a unipersonalist absolute that is pseudomonotheistic since, in this case, the possibility of any other being would have been made impossible.
- (politics, Philippines) An autocrat; One who does not share political power with other people, or one who supports such a ruler.
- 1987, Aruna Gopinath, Manuel L. Quezon: The Tutelary Democrat:
- Labelling Osmeña as an autocrat and "unipersonalist," Quezon advocated the notion of " collective leadership, " meaning that authority and responsibilities would be distributed to various agencies and leaders in the government.
- 1989, Philippine Studies - Volume 37, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 222:
- The emergence of the Democrata party as a political force after the June 1922 elections forced the Nacionalistas ( whether of Osmeña's unipersonalist or Quezon's collectivist wing) to appear more radical than the Democrata on the matter of "immediate, complete, and absolute independence."