a priori vs authoritarian

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

authoritarian

noun
  • One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority. 

  • One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority. 

adj
  • Demanding obedience to authority; marked by authoritarianism; dictatorial, tyrannical. 

  • Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties. 

  • Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority. 

How often have the words a priori and authoritarian occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )