All 8 Uses of
conclusive
in
Anna Karenina
- I have had to do business with him, 'positively and conclusively.'†
Part 2 *
- "Positively and conclusively" were the merchant's favorite words.†
Part 2
- The money is ready conclusively to the last farthing.†
Part 2
- …the whole subject theoretically and to complete his book, which, in Levin's daydreams, was not merely to effect a revolution in political economy, but to annihilate that science entirely and to lay the foundation of a new science of the relation of the people to the soil, all that was left to do was to make a tour abroad, and to study on the spot all that had been done in the same direction, and to collect conclusive evidence that all that had been done there was not what was wanted.†
Part 3
- "But," said Sergey Ivanovitch, smiling subtly, and addressing Karenin, "One must allow that to weigh all the advantages and disadvantages of classical and scientific studies is a difficult task, and the question which form of education was to be preferred would not have been so quickly and conclusively decided if there had not been in favor of classical education, as you expressed it just now, its moral—disons le mot—anti-nihilist influence."†
Part 4
- When Countess Nordston ventured to hint that she had hoped for something better, Kitty was so angry and proved so conclusively that nothing in the world could be better than Levin, that Countess Nordston had to admit it, and in Kitty's presence never met Levin without a smile of ecstatic admiration.†
Part 4
- She had been caught in the act, and was now making jam before everyone, and it was to be proved to her conclusively that jam could be very well made without water.†
Part 6
- And turning over the beautifully written, wide-margined manuscript, Alexey Alexandrovitch read aloud over again the conclusive passage.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(conclusive) putting an end to doubt or question