All 11 Uses of
positive
in
Great Expectations
- ...as Mr. Pumblechook was very positive and drove his own chaise-cart—over Everybody—it was agreed that it must be so.
Chpt 6positive = certain
- Positively laughing!
Chpt 13 *positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
Chpt 15
- In my heart I believed her to be right; and yet I took it rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point.
Chpt 17positive = certain
- Now, you are distinctly to understand that you are most positively prohibited from making any inquiry on this head, or any allusion or reference, however distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the communications you may have with me.
Chpt 18positively = certainly (used for emphasis)
- Sarah Pocket came to the gate, and positively reeled back when she saw me so changed; her walnut-shell countenance likewise turned from brown to green and yellow.
Chpt 19positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- And now before I say anything more about my father, or my father's son, and repay confidence with confidence, I want to make myself seriously disagreeable to you for a moment,—positively repulsive.
Chpt 30
- When he felt his case unusually serious, and that he positively must find an opening, he would go on 'Change at a busy time, and walk in and out, in a kind of gloomy country dance figure, among the assembled magnates.
Chpt 34
- She was even more dreadfully fond of Estella than she had been when I last saw them together; I repeat the word advisedly, for there was something positively dreadful in the energy of her looks and embraces.
Chpt 38
- "Whether I should have noticed him at first but for your being there," said Mr. Wopsle, going on in the same lost way, "I can't be positive; yet I think I should."
Chpt 47positive = certain
- Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.
Chpt 53positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)