absolutely

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AB'SOLUTELY, adverb 1. Completely, wholly, as a thing is absolutely unintelligible. 2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected Absolutely we cannot discommend, we cannot absolutely approve, either willingness to live, or forwardness to die. 3. Without restriction or limitation; as God reigns absolutely 4. Without condition, as God does not forgive absolutely but upon condition of faith and repentance. 5. Positively, peremptorily, as command me absolutely not to go.
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