a priori vs outright

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

outright

adj
  • Unqualified and unreserved. 

  • Having no outstanding conditions. 

  • Total or complete. 

verb
  • To release a player outright, without conditions. 

adv
  • Blatantly; inexcusably. 

  • Openly and without reservation. 

  • At once. 

  • With no outstanding conditions. 

  • Wholly, completely and entirely. 

How often have the words a priori and outright occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )