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Definition
best possible, final, or definite (beyond question)
- 'The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,' he said.p. 50.9
definitive = best possible
- And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and metres, was engaged in producing garbled versions — definitive texts, they were called — of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.p. 42.3
- None of the three super-states could be definitively conquered even by the other two in combination.p. 186.9
- We were producing a definitive edition of the poems of Kipling.p. 230.9
definitive = authoritative ("the best possible, real versions")
definitively = in a manner that ends all question
definitive = best and most respected
There are no more uses of "definitive" in 1984 by Orwell.
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