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Absolute

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means complete and total, without exception or qualification
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Stage 1 of 2
absolutus
Latin · ancient
"loosened, unrestricted"
loosened, unrestricted, from ab- (away) and solvere (to loosen)
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Stage 2 of 2
absolute
English · 1300s
"complete, total, and unrestricted"
settled as the English word for something complete and unrestricted
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