categorical

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Just as our opposition to apartheid and Nazism was categorical, our rejection of Israel should be absolute and categorical.

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  1. adjective Being without exception or qualification; absolute. See Synonyms at explicit.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a category or categories.
  3. adjective According to or using categories: a categorical arrangement of specimens.

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  • Solutions are given for missing data challenges such as handling longitudinal, categorical, and clustered data with normal-model MI; including interactions in the missing data model; and handling large numbers of variables. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Roane Carey: Anything short of a categorical, even vociferous US refusal to countenance an Israeli attack on Iran might have horrific consequences. —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Just as our opposition to apartheid and Nazism was categorical, our rejection of Israel should be absolute and categorical. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • While most prohomosex polemicists admit that sexual moral codes are transcultural and transhistorical, attempts are made to find grammatical, categorical, cultural and motivatonal aspects that would disallow the injunctions which prohibit homosex. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The following summation, while not inclusive, provides reasons for the position that no grammatical, categorical, cultural or motivation argument warrants relegating the Levitical injunctions against homosex to merely being prohibitory of idolatrous temple homosex, or belonging to the class of ceremonial laws (which are not the same), or are only motive-specific, but that instead they are universal and immutable. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. = French catégorique = Spanish categórico = Portuguese Italian categorico, from Late Latin categoricus, from Greek κατηγορικός, from κατηγορἱα, a category: see category and -ic, -ical.
 

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