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unconˈditional, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Not limited by or subject to conditions or stipulations; absolute, unlimited, complete.
1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. cclxix, O pass not, Lord, an absolute Decree, Or bind thy Sentence unconditional. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 19 Our Saviour left a Power in his Church to absolve men from their Sins; but this was not an absolute or unconditional Power. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. I. 399 The obligation of an immediate and unconditional payment of such bank notes as soon as presented. 1830Hazlitt Life Napoleon Buonaparte IV. l. 119 We will have more, namely the original stake we played for; unconditional surrender of the right of nations to chuse their own government. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 404 The chamber of accounts leaned towards unconditional obedience, and prepared to quit Paris. 1844–8H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 351 He pretended that he had come to offer an unconditional surrender of the fortress. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay viii, There must be nothing about possibility... Give me an unconditional promise, or I shall not leave you! 1901H. Campbell-Bannerman in Hansard Commons 14 Feb. 89 Unconditional surrender was our first and last word. 1930G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 69 In plain terms we require from you an unconditional surrender. 1949New Statesman 30 July 115/2 The sharp argument about ‘unconditional surrender’ in the House of Commons last week revealed much that was of more than historical significance... He [sc. Mr. Bevin] had not protested when Mr. Churchill brought back this fatal slogan from Casablanca. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 81 The only completely unconditional surrender will come when everybody—but everybody—is a corpse. 1974Times 20 Dec. 1/2 The Kuwait authorities insisted that the [hijackers'] surrender was ‘unconditional’.
Hence unconˈditionalness.
1843Mill Logic I. 372 If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. 1884Expositor Feb. 151 The unconditionalness of God's election. |