Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AB'SO-LUTE-LY, adv.

1. Completely; wholly; as, a thing is absolutely unintelligible.
2. Without dependence or relation; in a state unconnected. Absolutely we can not discommend, we can not absolutely approve, either willingness to live, or forwardness to die. – Hooker.
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.