All 5 Uses of
positive
in
Hard Times
- Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the lookingglass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.†
Chpt 1.16
- …the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
Chpt 2.2positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- She had positively refused to take to her bed; on the ground that if she did, she would never hear the last of it.
Chpt 2.9 *
- 'I think there's a pain somewhere in the room,' said Mrs. Gradgrind, 'but I couldn't positively say that I have got it.'†
Chpt 2.9
- He was positively agitated.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)