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unanimous, a.|juːˈnænɪməs|
[f. L. ūnanim-is, -us: see unanime a.]
1. Of persons: Of one mind or opinion; agreed.
1624Donne Serm. Wks. 1839 IV. 585 Be the fathers as clear, and as unanimous as they will in it. 1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 70 Let not thine unanimous friend nor thy brother know what thou dost. 1697Addison Ess. Georgics ⁋1 All are Unanimous in giving him the Precedence to Hesiod in his Georgics. 1744Harris Three Treat. Wks. (1841) 43 You cannot forget (for we were both unanimous) the contempt in which we held those superficial censurers. 1783W. Thomson Watson's Philip III, vi. 475 The council was unanimous that he ought immediately to be recalled. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 146 The English Roman Catholics..were almost unanimous in favour of the Act of Settlement. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life x. v. 388 Physicians are unanimous in their preference of early to late work.
2. Of beliefs, statements, actions, etc.: Exhibiting general agreement or consent.
1675tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. 402 The universall and unanimous Belief of all men carried it for certain Truth, that a most invincible Armada was rigged and prepared in Spain against England. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon II. 685 Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended vi. (1728) 352 By the unanimous consent of all Chronologers. 1772Burke Corr. (1844) I. 363 Without their own vigorous and unanimous efforts in their own cause, our endeavours will be of no service. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 22 The nation seemed to unite in an unanimous declaration of freedom. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 3 The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved..by the unanimous voice of later antiquity. |