All 5 Uses of
positive
in
Oliver Twist
- That same evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.
Chpt 3positively = certainly (used for emphasis)
- Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.
Chpt 8positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- It is due to the young lady to say that she did not positively affirm that she would not, but that she merely expressed an emphatic and earnest desire to be 'blessed' if she would; a polite and delicate evasion of the request, which shows the young lady to have been possessed of that natural good breeding which cannot bear to inflict upon a fellow-creature, the pain of a direct and pointed refusal.
Chpt 13positively = with certainty
- 'You ought to be dead; positively dead with the fright,' said the fat gentleman.
Chpt 29 *positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- It was not until the night of this last awful day, that a withering sense of his helpless, desperate state came in its full intensity upon his blighted soul; not that he had ever held any defined or positive hope of mercy, but that he had never been able to consider more than the dim probability of dying so soon.
Chpt 52positive = certain
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)