absolutest

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

absolutest

  1. (rare) superlative form of absolute: most absolute
    • 1925, John MacCaig Thorburn, Art and the Unconscious: A Psychological Approach to a Problem of Philosophy‎[1], page 116:
      This is the absolutest thing, the most entirely on its own, the most hopelessly free from possibility of subjection".
    • 2012, Larry Wagger, Death Wore High Heels‎[2], page 78:
      For those of you who are unaware, Studio 54 was the absolutest hot club in America.

Etymology 2

Adjective

absolutest

  1. Misspelling of absolutist.
    • 1849, Alexander Mackay, The Western World: Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47‎[3], volume 2, page 232:
      […] the principle of despotism, typified by the rupture with England, and the growing alliance with the absolutest powers; or in the unequivocal determination to check the progress of rational liberty in France […]

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