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Meanings of categorical answer in English

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Usage of categorical answer in English
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The Duchess insisted upon a distinct and categorical answer to the four cities.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65
2
To this momentous question I do not profess to give a categorical answer.
Russia
3
Mr. Cilley declining to give the categorical answer demanded, was immediately challenged by Graves.
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
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I must have a plain categorical answer or I will not move an inch.
The Passenger from Calais
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But since you ask the question and require a categorical answer, I will make my confession.
Don Orsino
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That is the simple question which he has to put, and he naturally expects a simple, categorical answer.
Russia
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There can be no categorical answer.
The Guardian
8
She never gave a categorical answer.
The Frontiersmen
9
The categorical answer, Mr. Cumberland.
The House of the Whispering Pines
10
Give me a categorical answer.
Fenton's Quest
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But it is no good considering this further or suggesting names until we have a categorical answer to the question.
The Guardian
12
He said, This speech is not made as applicable to my case, nor have you given me a categorical answer.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat,...
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They refused to accept a copy of the oration, but they promised to send him a categorical answer to it in writing.
History of the United Netherlands, 1597-98
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A more determined objection to giving a categorical answer occurred, as I have been assured, in regard to a more profound question.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character
15
Incensed at this discovery, I went to a coffee-house hard by, and, inclosing his lordship's letter in one from myself, demanded a categorical answer.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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In short, I found means to defer the categorical answer till next day, and invited the duke and his lordship to dine with me to-morrow.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Categorical answer across language varieties
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