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UNCONDITIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconditionally mean? 

UNCONDITIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNCONDITIONALLY has 2 senses:

1. not subject to a conditionplay

2. in an unqualified mannerplay

  Familiarity information: UNCONDITIONALLY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNCONDITIONALLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not subject to a condition

Context example:

he accepted the offer unconditionally

Antonym:

conditionally (subject to a condition)


Sense 2

Meaning:

In an unqualified manner

Synonyms:

categorically; flatly; unconditionally

Context example:

he flatly denied the charges

Pertainym:

unconditional (not conditional)


 Context examples 


” One of the professional people replied, “And gives her all unconditionally.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of course it was left to her unconditionally.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It had been left to her, unconditionally, by her first husband,” Mr. Murdstone began, when my aunt caught him up with the greatest irascibility and impatience.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am here to take David back—to take him back unconditionally, to dispose of him as I think proper, and to deal with him as I think right.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Left to her unconditionally!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“In the act, my dear Annie,” repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreading the newspaper on her lap like a table-cloth, and patting her hands upon it, “of making his last Will and Testament. The foresight and affection of the dear! I must tell you how it was. I really must, in justice to the darling—for he is nothing less!—tell you how it was. Perhaps you know, Miss Trotwood, that there is never a candle lighted in this house, until one's eyes are literally falling out of one's head with being stretched to read the paper. And that there is not a chair in this house, in which a paper can be what I call, read, except one in the Study. This took me to the Study, where I saw a light. I opened the door. In company with the dear Doctor were two professional people, evidently connected with the law, and they were all three standing at the table: the darling Doctor pen in hand. “This simply expresses then,” said the Doctor—Annie, my love, attend to the very words—“this simply expresses then, gentlemen, the confidence I have in Mrs. Strong, and gives her all unconditionally?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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