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unanimity
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  • But the decision was correct, and the unanimity of the judges had its justification in the excellence of the sonnet.†  (source)
  • "You see," the attorney Giuliani said, "not only is there no comfort in unanimity, but they cannot even achieve it."†  (source)
  • They ended in unanimity or not at all.†  (source)
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  • The test of intellectual excellence, however, had been reduced by tradition and unvoiced unanimity to a single area of study: Talmud.†  (source)
  • a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones;†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unanimities means not and reverses the meaning of animities. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "No, they shall be lashed," said Unanimity 7-3304, "till there is nothing left under the lashes."†  (source)
  • On such feelings, more or less dimly shared by all, the unanimity and general approval were founded with which, despite court influences, the popular choice of Kutuzov as commander in chief was received.†  (source)
  • As stubborn as the granite of their mountains, they, almost in unanimity, refuse to yield.†  (source)
  • We most earnestly recommend to you calmness and unanimity in this great and weighty affair, that the union may be brought to a happy conclusion, being the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness, and disappoint the designs of our and your enemies, who will ...use their utmost endeavors to prevent or delay this union.†  (source)
  • George Norris was saddened by the near unanimity with which "my own people condemned me ...and asserted that I was misrepresenting my state."†  (source)
  • "We have nothing, my dear sir, to depend upon, but the protection of a kind Providence and unanimity among ourselves," he wrote to John Adams from his Broadway headquarters.†  (source)
  • With what seemed like unusual unanimity, the peasants and the people in the slums had embraced something called dechoukaj, the "uprooting" of every visible symbol of the Duvaliers, which included the public persecution and sometimes the killing of former tontons macoutes, mostly small fry, of course.†  (source)
  • Over us all broods a splendid unanimity.†  (source)
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