unconditional
[uhn-kuhn-dish-uh-nl]
- not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
- Mathematics. absolute(def 12).
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Origin of unconditional
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Contemporary Examples
I was thrilled, because I am an unconditional Jack Nicholson fan.
Richardson countered, says a friend, “with unconditional love, constantly protecting, praising her husband.”
Over the next three and a half years that Obama is in office, the President promised, Israel will get unconditional support.
By breaking from the right-wing consensus in favor of unconditional bellicosity, I had gone rogue.
“I look for unconditional ways to help my clients and ways that make sense for day-to-day living,” says Johnson.
Historical Examples
Though the right to live is absolute, it is not unconditional.
A Treatise on Parents and ChildrenGeorge Bernard Shaw
She craves nothing but the compulsion to unconditional obedience.
Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)Frank Wedekind
The Colonel refused to take it, and demanded an unconditional surrender.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
The law has since been amended, to make the penalties absolute and unconditional.
A Book for All ReadersAinsworth Rand Spofford
"I require an unconditional surrender," said Flora, with an unappeasable smile.
A Hungarian NabobMaurus Jkai
unconditional
- without conditions or limitations; totalunconditional surrender
- maths (of an equality) true for all values of the variable( x +1)> x is an unconditional equality
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Word Origin and History for unconditional
adj.
1660s, from un- (1) "not" + conditional. Related: Unconditionally. Unconditional surrender in the military sense is attested from 1730; in U.S., often associated with Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the taking of Fort Donelson.
The ringing phrase of Grant's latest despatch circulated through the North like some coinage fresh from the mint, and "Unconditional Surrender," which suited the initials of his modest signature, became like a baptismal name. [James Schouler, "History of the United States of America," Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899].
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