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 prec.] 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, Lett. 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.
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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. G. P. R. 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.
