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unanimity|juːnəˈnɪmɪtɪ|
Also 5 -te, 6 -tee, 6–7 -tie.
[ad. OF. unanimite (14th c.; F. unanimité, = It. unanimità, Sp. -idad, Pg. -idade), ad. L. ūnanimitās (rare), f. ūnanimis, -us: see unanime a.]
The state of being unanimous or of one mind; agreement in opinion.
1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 201 Set many wittes wythoutene variaunce To one accorde and unanimite. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 478 Our Lords sacrifices doe declare the Christian vnanimitie, which is knitted vnto him with an insuperable vnitie. 1581Lambarde Eiren. i. ii. (1588) 8 To reduce the people to an uniuersall unanimitie (or agreement of minds). 1603B. Jonson K. Jas.'s Entertainm. Wks. (1616) 847 Her selfe personating the vnanimity, or consent of soule, in all inhabitants of the city to his seruice. 1680C. Nesse Church-Hist. 425 Christian Princes..might have by their unanimity and united armies given a stop to..this severe scourge. 1762in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 345 May it produce Peace abroad, and cheerful unanimity at home. 1781Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 14 Nov., I..love them because they love each other. Of this consanguineous unanimity I have had never much experience. 1822Byron Juan vii. li, A general council, in which unanimity, That stranger to most councils, here prevail'd. 1859Mill Liberty ii. (1865) 28/1 Persons..who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject. 1897Gladstone E. Crisis 16 Parliament, upon that question, would speak with unanimity.
b. Const. of.
1712Steele Spect. No. 280 ⁋2 A certain Unanimity of Taste and Judgment. 1815Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 65 The acceptance of the new act by nearly a unanimity of votes. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 291 This unanimity of object seems to me to have given ultimate predominance to the royal party. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech iii. (1873) 106 Animated by a sublime unanimity of purpose. |