unconditionaladj.

1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cclxix. 68 O pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 19 Our Saviour left a Power in his Church to absolve men from their Sins; but this was not an absolute or unconditional Power.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 399 The obligation of an immediate and unconditional payment of such bank notes as soon as presented. View more context for this quotation

1830 W. Hazlitt 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.

1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV I. 404 The chamber of accounts leaned towards unconditional obedience, and prepared to quit Paris.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. viii. 351 He pretended that he had come to offer an unconditional surrender of the fortress.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay viii. 122 There must be nothing about possibility... Give me an unconditional promise, or I shall not leave you!

1901 H. Campbell-Bannerman in Hansard Commons 14 Feb. 89 Unconditional surrender was our first and last word.

1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart ii. 69 In plain terms we require from you an unconditional surrender.

1949 New 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.

1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 81 The only completely unconditional surrender will come when everybody—but everybody—is a corpse.

1974 Times 20 Dec. 1/2 The Kuwait authorities insisted that the [hijackers'] surrender was ‘unconditional’.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. 372 If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness.

1884 Expositor Feb. 151 The unconditionalness of God's election.