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.
| 1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 201 Set many wittes wythoutene variaunce To one accorde and unanimite. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 478 Our Lords sacrifices doe declare the Christian vnanimitie, which is knitted vnto him with an insuperable vnitie. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. i. ii. (1588) 8 To reduce the people to an uniuersall unanimitie (or agreement of minds). 1603 B. 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. 1680 C. Nesse Church-Hist. 425 Christian Princes..might have by their unanimity and united armies given a stop to..this severe scourge. 1762 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 345 May it produce Peace abroad, and cheerful unanimity at home. 1781 Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 14 Nov., I..love them because they love each other. Of this consanguineous unanimity I have had never much experience. 1822 Byron Juan vii. li, A general council, in which unanimity, That stranger to most councils, here prevail'd. 1859 Mill Liberty ii. (1865) 28/1 Persons..who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject. 1897 Gladstone E. Crisis 16 Parliament, upon that question, would speak with unanimity. |
b. Const. of.
| 1712 Steele Spect. No. 280 ¶2 A certain Unanimity of Taste and Judgment. 1815 Ann. Reg., Gen. Hist. 65 The acceptance of the new act by nearly a unanimity of votes. 1839 James Louis XIV, II. 291 This unanimity of object seems to me to have given ultimate predominance to the royal party. 1869 Farrar Fam. Speech iii. (1873) 106 Animated by a sublime unanimity of purpose. |