unanimity en · NOUN
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From unanim(ous) + -ity, from Middle French unanimité, from Late Latin ūnanimitās. Displaced native Old English ānmōdnes (literally “one-mindedness”).
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(countable, uncountable) The condition of agreement by all parties, the state of being unanimous.
Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swans were white: are we also wrong, when we conclude that all men's heads grow above their shoulders, and never below, in spite of the conflicting testimony of the naturalist Pliny? As there were black swans, though civilised people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them, may there not also be "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders," notwithstanding a rather less perfect unanimity of negative testimony from all observers? Most persons would answer No; it was more credible that a bird should vary in its colour, than that man should vary in the relative position of his principal organs.
1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Ground of Induction”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, § 3, page 379:Those responsible for preannouncing the Internet's hot new ideas are pushing Push with a ferocious unanimity.
1997 March 23, James Gleick, “Pushy, Pushy”, in The New York Times Magazine:That was followed by a Florida Supreme Court ruling that found the jury must be unanimous to impose the death penalty, and Florida lawmakers adopted the unanimity requirement soon after.
2023 April 20, Sydney Kashiwagi, “DeSantis signs bill eliminating unanimous jury decisions for death sentences”, in CNN:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| unanimities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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hy միաձայնություն (condition) · nb enstemmighet (condition) · uk одноду́шність (condition) · de Einstimmigkeit (condition) · ka ერთხმივობა (condition) · gv aigney (condition) · he פה אחד (condition) · he אחדות (condition) · fi yksituumaisuus (condition) · sv enhällighet (condition) · it unanimità (condition) · gl unanimidade (condition) · bg единоду́шие (condition) · id permufakatan (condition) · nl eensgezindheid (condition) · ang ānmōdnes (condition) · ro unanimitate (condition) · hi मतैक्य (condition) · da enstemmighed (condition) · ru единомы́слие (condition) · nn einstemmigheit (condition) · es unanimidad (condition) · el ομοφωνία (condition) · uk односта́йність (condition) · ckb یەکێتی (condition) · ja 満場一致 (condition) · ca unanimitat (condition) · pl jednomyślność (condition) · be аднаду́шнасць (condition) · ru единогла́сие (condition) · ko 만장일치 (condition) · cmn 一致 (condition) · be аднаду́шнасьць (condition) · fr unanimité (condition) · eo unuanimeco (condition) · el παμψηφία (condition) · grc ὁμόνοια (condition) · io unanimeso (condition) · ru единоду́шие (condition) · de Einhelligkeit (condition) · pt unanimidade (condition) · ka ერთსულოვნება (condition) · hy միաբանություն (condition) · hu egyhangúság (condition) · fi yksimielisyys (condition) · de Einmütigkeit (condition) · ga aontoilíocht (condition) · gv unnaneys (condition) · id persepakatan (condition) · gv co-aigney (condition)